yardgrass
English
Etymology
yard + grass
Noun
yardgrass (uncountable)
- Grass in a lawn
- 1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150:
- Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.
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- Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed
- 1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34:
- The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.
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Synonyms
- crowfootgrass
- Indian goosegrass
- wiregrass
See also
Eleusine indica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia