wheatgrass

wheat·grass  (hwtgrs, wt-)

n.

Any of certain grass plants, especially crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum), grown as pasture and fodder for livestock and having sprouts that are valued as a health food.

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wheatgrass [ˈwiːtgrɑːs]

n

(Cookery) another name for couch grass

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

wheatgrass - a grass of the genus Agropyron wheat-grass grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay Agropyron, genus Agropyron - perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass Agropyron cristatum, crested wheat grass, crested wheatgrass, fairway crested wheat grass - Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass - European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed Agropyron subsecundum, bearded wheatgrass - a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes Agropyron smithii, bluestem wheatgrass, western wheatgrass - valuable forage grass of western United States Agropyron intermedium, Elymus hispidus, intermediate wheatgrass - Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder Agropyron pauciflorum, Agropyron trachycaulum, Elymus trachycaulos, slender wheatgrass - North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop