Silk grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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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Definitions
  1. (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 genera Aqave and Yucca.

Webster 1913