Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere.
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Examples for "yard grass"
Examples for "yard grass"
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I saw the barbecue overturned, with the glowing coals already setting patches of the scant front- yard grass on fire.
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"She remembered, perhaps, her young days," old Sylvester added, "when she used to crop the door- yard grass."
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You know how rapidly wire grass and Bermuda grass will overrun the garden or farm.
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The hunters pressed on for another half mile, through mostly scrub slash pine and wire grass.
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After a while they came to a shallow wash partly covered by wire grass and dotted with rotting pine stumps.
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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.
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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.
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He had been storm-stead camping in the goose grass for three days.
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The rude decoys were placed as though they were having a glorious time feasting on the rich goose grass.
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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.
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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.
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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.)