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love grass

noun

Definition of love grass

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

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 Pennsylvania sedge and purple love grass work great. — David Walters, The Cut, "How to Use Plants to Make Your Tiny Apartment Seem Bigger," 24 Oct. 2017

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1702, in the meaning defined above

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