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herd's-grass

[ hurdz-gras, -grahs ]

noun

  1. timothy or redtop, used for hay or pasture.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of herd's-grass1

1730–40, Americanism; named after John Herd, who in 1700 found it growing in New Hampshire

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Example Sentences

It was white with daisies, yellow with buttercups, with some moderate share of timothy and herds grass intermixed.

The wet field becomes dry, the wild grass gives place to clover and herds-grass, and the experiment is pronounced successful.

Many were covered with a heavy growth of timothy or herds grass, and red top in blossom.

Cows must not have dusty hay, it hurts their lungs, &c. Cows ought not to have Timothy herds grass hay, it is physic.

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