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switchgrass en · NOUN

Etymology

From switch + grass.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A tall North American perennial grass, of species Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
    • He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle. 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35:

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Relateds

panic grass

Translations (7)

cmn 柳枝稷 (Panicum virgatum) · fr panic érigé (Panicum virgatum) · bg стрелковидна трева (Panicum virgatum) · de Rutenhirse (Panicum virgatum) · ko 큰개기장 (Panicum virgatum) · fi luutahirssi (Panicum virgatum) · fi lännenhirssi (Panicum virgatum)