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redtop

[ red-top ]

noun

  1. any of several grasses of the genus Agrostis having reddish panicles, as A. gigantea, widely cultivated for lawns and pasturage.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of redtop1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; red 1 + top 1

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Example Sentences

Soon Fox reached a place where the rye grass, or wild redtop, was very thick and tall.

Foxtail (Setaria glauca), false redtop (Triodia flava), and panic grass (Panicum clandestinum) also occur commonly.

Redtop, clover, and timothy grow rank, and are profitably cultivated.

It was the stalks, above the upper joint, of spear-grass and redtop grass growing so profusely in Weathersfield.

Timothy and redtop and witch-grass are the very children of olus.

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