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yardgrass en · NOUN

Etymology

From yard + grass.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Grass in a lawn.
    • Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church. 1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150:
  2. (uncountable) Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed.
    • The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions. 1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34:

Synonyms

wiregrass · crowfootgrass · Indian goosegrass