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grass

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Edible grasses grass, any plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering...

marram grass

(Encyclopedia)marram grass: see beach grass.

Johnson grass

(Encyclopedia)Johnson grass: see sorghum.

herd's-grass

(Encyclopedia)herd's-grass: see timothy; bent grass. ...

Grass, Günter

(Encyclopedia)Grass, Günter günˈtər gräs [key], 1927–2015, German novelist, lyricist, artist, and playwright, b. Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Writing from his experience in the Hitler Youth, the German army...

grass pink

(Encyclopedia)grass pink: see orchid.

cotton grass

(Encyclopedia)cotton grass, common name for sedges of the genus Eriophorum. ...

couch grass

(Encyclopedia)couch grass, name for several grasses, among them quack grass. ...

China grass

(Encyclopedia)China grass: see nettle.

rye grass

(Encyclopedia)rye grass, short-lived perennial, leafy, tufted plant belonging to the family Poaceae (grass family). Two species are grown in the United States—Italian rye grass (Lolium multiflorum), the leading h...