barnyard grass

barnyard grass

n.

Any of certain grasses in the genus Echinochloa, especially the Old World annual species E. crusgalli, used sometimes for forage and widespread as a weed.

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Noun

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barnyard grass - a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing barn grass, barn millet, Echinochloa crusgalli Echinochloa, genus Echinochloa - annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine