evergreen grass

evergreen grass
noun
coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
Hypernyms: ↑grass
Member Holonyms: ↑Arrhenatherum, ↑genus Arrhenatherum

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