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Meanings of Eleusine indica in anglès

Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere.

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Examples for "yardgrass"
Examples for "yardgrass"
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I saw the barbecue overturned, with the glowing coals already setting patches of the scant front- yard grass on fire.
Bag of Bones
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"She remembered, perhaps, her young days," old Sylvester added, "when she used to crop the door- yard grass."
Chanticleer / A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family
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You know how rapidly wire grass and Bermuda grass will overrun the garden or farm.
The First Book of Farming
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The hunters pressed on for another half mile, through mostly scrub slash pine and wire grass.
Anthill: a novel
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After a while they came to a shallow wash partly covered by wire grass and dotted with rotting pine stumps.
Anthill: a novel
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He pointed ruefully to the four goldfish, which he had strung upon wire grass and dropped into the edge of the pool.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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They would tramp behind her through the scrub and wire grass back to the house-Georgeand his cousins James and Joseph, whom they called Brother.
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migr...
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He had been storm-stead camping in the goose grass for three days.
The Canadian Commonwealth
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The rude decoys were placed as though they were having a glorious time feasting on the rich goose grass.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land
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With a yell they were off out of sight amid the goose grass and reeds with the sleigh and his garments.
The Canadian Commonwealth
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Drift chips, lodged in the goose grass, kindled fire for kettle, but oilcloth had to be spread before you could get footing ashore.
The Canadian Commonwealth
Usage of Eleusine indica in anglès
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We find among the gramineous plants, in the savannah of Cumanacoa, the Paspalus lenticularis, Panicum ascendens, Pennisetum uniflorum, Gynerium saccharoides, Eleusine indica, etc.)
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...