Agrostis

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Agrostis - annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)

genus Agrostis

plant genus - a genus of plants

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

bent grass, bent-grass, bent - grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

References in periodicals archive ?

Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish.

Agroforestry and wildlife management go together on small farms

redtop grass. Other grasses and crops exist around these fields.

Biological Sciences collegiate section

The scarce number of studies include earlier reports on cell suspensions of maize, tobacco (Kaeppler et al., 1990), redtop grass (Asano et al., 1991), and a more recent one using mature embryos of wheat (Serik et al., 1996), in which only GUS transient expression was detected in the Csi-DNA-treated cultured cells.