meadowgrass

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Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture, especially those of the genus Poa, common in meadows, and of great value for hay and for pasture. See Grass.

Thesaurus

Noun

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meadowgrass - any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture meadow grass family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay foxtail, foxtail grass - grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes manna grass, sweet grass - any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor Agrostis alba, Poa nemoralis, wood meadowgrass - slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia