wire grass
noun
: any of various grasses or rushes having wiry culms or leaves: such as
a
: a Eurasian slender-stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the U.S. and Canada
b
: any of several coarse grasses (genus Aristida) with a 3-awned lemma that grow extensively in open dry, sandy, or sterile areas especially of the southeastern and south-central U.S.
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The area around it is resplendent with wire grass, bluestem, and fennel.
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Wired, 29 July 2022
Across flat and empty fields of wire grass, the developers paved suburban streets and called them Old Waverly Court and Rolling Greene Drive.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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Wired, 29 July 2022
Across flat and empty fields of wire grass, the developers paved suburban streets and called them Old Waverly Court and Rolling Greene Drive.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
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“Wire grass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wire%20grass. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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