wire grass

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See vine-mesquite.
• noun The nimble-Will, Muhlenbergia diffusa.
• noun A species of meadow-grass, Poa compressa, native in the Old World, naturalized in North America.
• noun A valued forage grass, Eleusine Indica, perhaps native in India, now widely distributed in warm and temperate regions: it is common southward in the United States.
• noun One of various other grasses, as the Bermuda grass, Cynodon Dactylon (see grass), Sporobolus junceus, and species of Aristida in the southern United States, and Paspalum filiforme in the West Indies.

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• noun handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
• noun coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere