Yardgrass

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Grass in a lawn uncountable

    "Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church."

  2. 2
    coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere wordnet
  3. 3
    Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed uncountable

    "The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions."

Synonyms

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crowfootgrasscrowfootgrasseleusine indicagoose grassindian goosegrassindian goosegrass

Example

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"Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church."

Etymology

From yard + grass.

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