carpet grass (redirected from Axonopus fissifolius)

carpet grass or car·pet·grass (kärpt-grs)

n.

Any of several coarse, sod-forming grasses of the chiefly New World genus Axonopus, especially A. affinis, cultivated for turf and pasture in warm humid regions.

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carpet grass - grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus blackseed, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii genus Sporobolus, Sporobolus - cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass) drop-seed, dropseed - a grass of the genus Sporobolus