rye·grass

or rye grass (rī′grăs′)

Any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, native to Eurasia and often used for forage or for stabilizing soil.

[Alteration of raygrass : ray, darnel (from Middle English rai, perhaps alteration of Old French ivraie, from Latin ēbriāca, from feminine of ēbriācus, drunk (from the plant's effects if ingested), from ēbrius; see inebriate) + grass.]

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Noun

rye grass - any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses

ryegrass

grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

genus Lolium, Lolium - darnel; ryegrass

English ryegrass, Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass - European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass

Italian rye, Italian ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum - European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure

bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

Translations

ivraie

loglio

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References in classic literature

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