wire grass

noun

1. handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

• Syn: ↑broom beard grass, ↑prairie grass, ↑Andropogon scoparius, ↑Schizachyrium scoparium

• Hypernyms: ↑broom grass

2. coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

• Syn: ↑yardgrass, ↑yard grass, ↑goose grass, ↑Eleusine indica

• Hypernyms: ↑millet

• Member Holonyms: ↑Eleusine, ↑genus Eleusine

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noun

: any of various grasses having wiry culms or leaves: as

a. : a European slender-stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the United States and Canada — called also Canada bluegrass

b. : yard grass

c. : bermuda grass

d. : any of several grasses of the genus Aristida

e. : any of several grasses of the genus Sporobolus

f. : nimble will

g. : little bluestem

h. : broomroot

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wire grass noun

1. A kind of fine meadow grass (Poa compressa)

2. Any of various other grasses with wiry stems

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Main Entry: ↑wire

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wire grass,

any one of various grasses having wiry stems or leaves, especially a slender Old-World meadow grass, naturalized in North America, and the yard grass.

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n. a grass with tough wiry stems. ● Genera Aristida and Poa, family Gramineae: several species, including the European P. compressa, which has become naturalized in North America