yard grass

yard grass

n.

Any of several weedy African grasses of the genus Eleusine, having usually digitately grouped spikes and flattened spikelets. Also called goose grass.

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yard grass

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an Old World perennial grass, Eleusine indica, with prostrate leaves, growing as a troublesome weed on open ground, yards, etc. Also called wire grass

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Noun

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yard grass - coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere Eleusine indica, yardgrass, wire grass, 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