Agrostis

noun

Agros·​tis

ə-ˈgrä-stəs

: a large and widely distributed genus of grasses having an open or contracted panicle with small one-flowered spikelets and including important pasture, hay, and lawn grasses see bent sense 2d, redtop

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, couch grass, from Greek agrōstis, a grass

First Known Use

circa 1543, in the meaning defined above

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