barnyard grass

barnyard grass
noun
a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing
Hypernyms: ↑millet
Member Holonyms: ↑Echinochloa, ↑genus Echinochloa

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noun also barn grass or barnyard millet
: a coarse annual grass (Echinochloa crusgalli) that has terminal panicles of one-sided flower clusters resembling spikes, is near cosmopolitan as a weed in cultivated ground, and is occasionally used for hay or grazing — see japanese millet

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a weedy, coarse grass, Echinochloa crus-galli, having a spikelike cluster of flowers. Also called barn grass.
[1835-45, Amer.]

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barnyard grass,
an annual grass that is a destructive weed of rice fields; jungle rice.

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