Lemon grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines
    lemongrass oil; lemongrass.
  2. noun a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka
    lemongrass.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.

Webster 1913