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.
1 You know how rapidly wire grass and Bermuda grass will overrun the garden or farm.
2 The hunters pressed on for another half mile, through mostly scrub slash pine and wire grass .
3 After a while they came to a shallow wash partly covered by wire grass and dotted with rotting pine stumps.
4 He pointed ruefully to the four goldfish, which he had strung upon wire grass and dropped into the edge of the pool.
5 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.
6 The wire grass was already yellowing on the Tasajara plains with the dusty decay of the long, dry summer when Dr. Duchesne returned to Tasajara.
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