Rye grass, pasture, hay. Lolium perenne, var.
Seneca grass, fragrant basket work, etc. North. Hierochloa borealis.
Sesame grass. Same as Gama grass
Sheep's fescue, sheep pasture, native in Northern Europe and Asia. Festuca ovina.
Small reed grass, meadow pasture and hay. North. Deyeuxia Canadensis.
Spear grass, Same as Meadow grass
Squirrel-tail grass, troublesome to animals. Seacoast and Northwest. Hordeum jubatum.
Switch grass, hay, cut young. Panicum virgatum.
Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense.
Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. Holcus lanatus.
Vernal grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Anthoxanthum odoratum.
Wire grass, valuable in pastures. Poa compressa.
Wood grass, Indian grass, hay. Chrysopogon nutans.
Many plants are popularly called grasses which are not true grasses botanically considered, such as
black grass, goose grass, star grass, etc.
Black grass, a kind of small rush (Juncus Gerardi), growing in salt marshes, used for making salt hay.
— Grass of the Andes, an oat grass, the Arrhenatherum avenaceum of Europe.— Grass of Parnassus,
a plant of the genus Parnassia growing in wet ground. The European species is P. palustris; in the
United States there are several species. — Grass bass (Zoöl.), the calico bass. — Grass bird, the
dunlin. — Grass cloth, a cloth woven from the tough fibers of the grass-cloth plant. — Grass-cloth
plant, a perennial herb of the Nettle family (Bœhmeria nivea or Urtica nivea), which grows in Sumatra,
China, and Assam, whose inner bark has fine and strong fibers suited for textile purposes. — Grass
finch. (Zoöl.) (a) A common American sparrow (Poöcætes gramineus); — called also vesper sparrow
and bay-winged bunting. (b) Any Australian finch, of the genus Poëphila, of which several species
are known. — Grass lamb, a lamb suckled by a dam running on pasture land and giving rich milk.—
Grass land, land kept in grass and not tilled. — Grass moth (Zoöl.), one of many small moths of
the genus Crambus, found in grass. — Grass oil, a fragrant essential volatile oil, obtained in India
from grasses of the genus Andropogon, etc.; — used in perfumery under the name of citronella, ginger
grass oil, lemon grass oil, essence of verbena etc. — Grass owl (Zoöl.), a South African owl (Strix
Capensis). — Grass parrakeet (Zoöl.), any of several species of Australian parrots, of the genus Euphemia; —
also applied to the zebra parrakeet. — Grass plover (Zoöl.), the upland or field plover. — Grass poly
(Bot.), a species of willowwort Johnson. — Crass quit (Zoöl.), one of several tropical American finches
of the genus Euetheia. The males have most of the head and chest black and often marked with yellow.
— Grass snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The common English, or ringed, snake (b) The common green snake of
the Northern United States. See Green snake, under Green. — Grass snipe (Zoöl.), the pectoral
sandpiper (Tringa maculata); — called also jacksnipe in America. — Grass spider (Zoöl.), a common
spider which spins flat webs on grass, conspicuous when covered with dew. — Grass sponge (Zoöl.),
an inferior kind of commercial sponge from Florida and the Bahamas. — Grass table. (Arch.) See
Earth table, under Earth. — Grass vetch (Bot.), a vetch with narrow grasslike leaves. — Grass
widow. [Cf. Prov. R. an unmarried mother, G. strohwittwe a mock widow, Sw. gräsenka a grass widow.]
(a) An unmarried woman who is a mother. [Obs.] (b) A woman separated from her husband by abandonment
or prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. [Slang.] — Grass wrack (Bot.) eelgrass.
