Silk grass Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Oryzopsis hymenoides; Indian millet; silkgrass; mountain rice.
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(Bot.) , a kind of grass (Stipa comata ) of the Western United States, which has very long silky awns. The name is also sometimes given to various species of the generaAqave andYucca .