Agrostis

Quick meaning: Agrostis is a noun meaning Any grass of the genus Agrostis of bentgrasses.

Meaning

Any grass of the genus Agrostis of bentgrasses.

Example Sentences

The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses--bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis, etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist.

Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings.

Word Forms

• agrostises

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heath, bentgrass, bent grass, ticklegrass, bent, eragrostis.

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