Usage of "wire grass"

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.

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Examples for "broom beard grass"

You should see the wild horses start up from the prairie grass. 
 Lewis Rand 

Once or twice he pawed the prairie grass, but that was all. 
 On the Trail of Pontiac; Or, The Pioneer Boys of the Ohio 

Its shadow swam like a winged gray fish across the prairie grass. 
 The witch of agnesi 

The fanner was plowing a shallow furrow through the tough prairie grass. 
 Lonesome dove 

They came on and on, just over the tops of the prairie grass. 
 Old Indian Legends 

Usage of wire grass in English

You know how rapidly wire grass and Bermuda grass will overrun the garden or farm. 
 The First Book of Farming 

The hunters pressed on for another half mile, through mostly scrub slash pine and wire grass. 
 Anthill: a novel 

After a while they came to a shallow wash partly covered by wire grass and dotted with rotting pine stumps. 
 Anthill: a novel 

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 

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... 

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. 
 Selected Stories of Bret Harte 

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Meanings of wire grass in English