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wire grasses

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wire grass

–noun
1. Canada bluegrass.
2. any of various grasses or rushes having wiry roots, culms, or leaves.
Also, wiregrass.


Origin:
1745–55, Americanism

Canada bluegrass

–noun
a Eurasian grass, Poa compressa, naturalized in North America, having creeping rootstocks and bluish-green leaves.
Also called wire grass.


Origin:
1900–05, Americanism
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