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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
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wire·grass   (wīr'grās')   
n.  Any of various grasses, such as Bermuda grass, having tough wiry roots or rootstocks.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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