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orchard grass
noun
- a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of orchard grass1
First recorded in 1755–65
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Example Sentences
I see myself now, face downwards in the orchard grass, broken-hearted by the calamity.
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I usually grow millet in the orchard for seven or eight years, and then—if anything—clover or orchard-grass.
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Our opinion is, that guanoed land should always be sowed to clover, or clover and orchard grass.
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The last of the new-tasting bough apples lie in the orchard grass.
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Ken did find wood--not in the woodshed, but strewing the orchard grass; hard old apple-wood, gray and tough.
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