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Meadow grass   Listen
noun
meadow grass, meadowgrass  n.  Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture, especially those of the genus Poa, common in meadows, and of great value for hay and for pasture. See Grass.






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"Meadow grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ground for a depth of four feet. Yet here we were in a very tropic of growth run riot and the frost, which still lay beneath the upper soil, was thawing and moistening the succulent roots of a wilderness of green. The meadow grass, swaying off to the forest margin in billowy ripples, was already knee-high. The woods were an impenetrable mass of foliage from the forest of ferns about the broad trunks to the high tree-tops, nodding and fanning in the night breeze ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... of our birds have so fitted into song and story as the bobolink. Unlike a good child, who should "be seen and not heard," he is heard more frequently than seen. Very shy, of peering eyes, he keeps well out of sight in the meadow grass before entrancing our listening ears. The bobolink never soars like the lark, as the poets would have us believe, but generally sings on the wing, flying with a peculiar self-conscious flight horizontally thirty or forty feet ...
— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan



Words linked to "Meadow grass" :   wood meadowgrass, foxtail grass, manna grass, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Gramineae, Gramineae, tall meadow grass, Poa nemoralis, meadowgrass, reed meadow grass, grass family, foxtail, sweet grass, Agrostis alba



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