Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An Old World grass, Melica nutans, affording some pasturage in woody places.
- noun Briza maxima, and perhaps Arrhenatherum avenaceum.
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"pearl-grass (_Glyceria Canadensis_)," a name given at Waverley,
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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