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Switchgrass
A tall North American perennial grass, Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
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A tall North American perennial grass, Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| switch grassnoun | Panicum virgatum, a dominant species of the central North American tallgrass prairie. |
| witchgrassnoun | Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed. |
| para grassnoun | An African grass, Urochloa mutica, used for fodder. |
| panicgrassnoun | Any of several of the species of grass in the genus Panicum. |
| buffalo grassnoun | Bouteloua dactyloides. |
| prosonoun | Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop. |
| panicumnoun | Any of the genus Panicum of tropical grasses. |
| gama grassnoun | A tall coarse American grass of species Tripsacum dactyloides, valuable for forage. |
| sweet vernal grassnoun | A perennial grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum, of Eurasia and northern Africa, used as forage |
| witch grassnoun | Alternative form of witchgrass. [Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed.] |
| panicnoun | (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare. |
| tallgrassnoun | (US) Any of various tall grasses that flourish in prairie with relatively abundant water. |
| pinegrassnoun | Calamagrostis rubescens, a perennial bunchgrass native to western North America. |
| blackgrassnoun | (UK) Alopecurus myosuroides, a weed that harms wheat crops. |
| windgrassnoun | (Lachnagrostis spp.) A common slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground, or around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins and coastal areas. |
| brownseed paspalumnoun | A perennial grass native to the subtropical and tropical parts of the Americas and grown elsewhere for pasture and hay, Paspalum plicatulum |
| scratchgrassnoun | Muhlenbergia asperifolia, a grass native to much of North America. |
| clubgrassnoun | Clover. |
| pampas grassnoun | Cortaderia selloana, including its cultivars. |
| hair grassnoun | A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as: |
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