Wire grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
    Schizachyrium scoparium; prairie grass; broom beard grass; Andropogon scoparius.
  2. noun coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
    Eleusine indica; goose grass; yard grass; yardgrass.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), either of the two common grasses Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass.

Webster 1913