agrostis | (n) annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland), Syn. genus Agrostis |
calamagrostis | (n) reed grass, Syn. genus Calamagrostis |
eragrostis | (n) annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics, Syn. genus Eragrostis |
australian reed grass | (n) tall Australian reedlike grass sometimes used for hay, Syn. Calamagrostic quadriseta |
cloud grass | (n) Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets, Syn. Agrostis nebulosa |
creeping bent | (n) common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners, Syn. creeping bentgrass, Agrostis palustris |
feather reed grass | (n) a variety of reed grass, Syn. feathertop, Calamagrostis acutiflora |
teff | (n) an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay, Syn. Eragrostis tef, teff grass, Eragrostic abyssinica |
velvet bent | (n) common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves, Syn. velvet bent grass, Agrostis canina, brown bent, dog bent, Rhode Island bent |
weeping love grass | (n) perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems; introduced into United States especially for erosion control, Syn. Eragrostis curvula, African love grass |
wood meadowgrass | (n) slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia, Syn. Poa nemoralis, Agrostis alba |