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bear grass
noun
1.
Also called elk grass. a tall, western North American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, of the lily family, having narrow leaves and a dense, broad cluster of tiny white flowers.
2.
any of several other plants having linear, grasslike leaves, as those of the genera Nolina and Dasylirion.
Origin:
1740–50, Americanism
1740–50, Americanism
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| bear grass | |
noun | |
| 1. | yucca of southern United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| 2. | yucca of west central United States having a clump of basal grasslike leaves and a central stalk with a terminal raceme of small whitish flowers |
| 3. | stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico |
| 4. | plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers [syn: squaw grass] |
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