lastón

lastón

Spanish

Noun

lastón m (plural lastones)

1. Any of several species of grass
   1. Agrostis pourretii (velvet bentgrass)
   2. Brachypodium phoenicoides (thinleaf false brome)
   3. Brachypodium pinnatum (tor grass, heath false brome)
   4. Brachypodium retusum (Mediterranean false brome)
   5. Dactylis glomerata (cock's foot)
   6. Elymus repens (syn. Elytrigia repens, quackgrass, couchgrass)
   7. Festuca arundinacea (tall fescue)
   8. Festuca indigesta (indigestible fescue)
   9. Hyparrhenia hirta (common thatching grass)
   10. Lygeum spartum (albardine, esparto grass, cord grass)
   11. Piptatherum miliaceum (smilograss)
2. Certain somewhat grass-like sedges
   1. Carex divulsa (grassland sedge, European meadow sedge)
   2. Carex paniculata (greater tussock sedge)

Further reading

• “lastón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014