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Definition of Bent grass
1. Noun. Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Agrostis, Genus Agrostis
Specialized synonyms: Agrostis Canina, Brown Bent, Dog Bent, Rhode Island Bent, Velvet Bent, Velvet Bent Grass, Agrostis Nebulosa, Cloud Grass, Agrostis Palustris, Creeping Bent, Creeping Bentgrass
Definition of Bent grass
1. Noun. Any of several grasses, of the genus ''Agrostis'', native to temperate climates; grown for pasture, turf and for putting greens and golf courses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bent grass
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bent Grass
Literary usage of Bent grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"CREEPING bent grass. A well known perennial, creeping or stoloniferous, 1-3 ft.
... FINE bent grass. Distinguished from the type by the smaller ligule, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The bent grass. Somerset. According to an ancient West country distich— •• Pigeons
never know no woe Tul they a brandling dogo. ..."
3. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Brown bent grass. PLATE XXVIII. Branches of the panicle elongated, slender,
erecto-patent, rough. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute, rough on the keel. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"(2) A plain ; a common ; a field ; a moor ; so called from those places being
frequently covered with the bent grass. Willan says bents are " high pastures ..."
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