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buffalo grasses

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buffalo grass

–noun
1. a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, having gray-green blades, prevalent on the dry plains east of the Rocky Mountains.
2. St. Augustine grass.
3. any of several short, tufted grasses that do not form continuous sod.

Origin:
1775–85, Americanism

St. Augustine grass

–noun
a low, mat-forming grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, of the southern U.S. and tropical America, that is cultivated as a lawn grass.
Also called buffalo grass.


Origin:
1930–35; after St. Augustine, Florida
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