Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn.
Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere.
1You know how rapidly wire grass and Bermuda grass will overrun the garden or farm.
2The hunters pressed on for another half mile, through mostly scrub slash pine and wire grass.
3After a while they came to a shallow wash partly covered by wire grass and dotted with rotting pine stumps.
4He pointed ruefully to the four goldfish, which he had strung upon wire grass and dropped into the edge of the pool.
5They would tramp behind her through the scrub and wire grass back to the house-Georgeand his cousins James and Joseph, whom they called Brother.
6The wire grass was already yellowing on the Tasajara plains with the dusty decay of the long, dry summer when Dr. Duchesne returned to Tasajara.