love grass

noun

: any of a genus (Eragrostis) of grasses that resemble the bluegrasses but have flattened spikelets and deciduous lemmas

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

In dunes, bogs, and heathlands, home to species adapted to a lack of nitrogen, plant diversity has decreased as nitrogen-loving grasses, shrubs, and trees move in. —Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Dec. 2019

Pennsylvania sedge and purple love grass work great. —David Walters, The Cut, 24 Oct. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1702, in the meaning defined above