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wire grass

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various grasses, such as Bermuda grass, that have tough wiry roots or rhizomes

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Noun	1.	wire grass - handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn Andropogon scoparius, broom beard grass, prairie grass, Schizachyrium scoparium broom grass - any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making
	2.	wire grass - coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere Eleusine indica, yard grass, yardgrass, goose grass Eleusine, genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands millet - any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine

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