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Definition of Curly grass
1. Noun. Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Genus Schizaea, Schizaea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curly Grass
Literary usage of Curly grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"The rootstock sends out slender underground stolons, which bear fronds the next
year. (Eurasia.) SCHIZAEACEAE (curly grass FAMILY) Sterile fronds tufted and ..."
2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... the fertile ones in our species terminating in a tuft-like expansion. About 16
species, mostly tropical; 1 in U. 8. Sometimes called Curly-grass. 1801. ..."
3. Kit Carson's Life and Adventures: From Facts Narrated by Himself : Embracing by De Witt Clinton Peters (1873)
"The bunch grass, as spoken of by Fremont, is the short, curly grass on which the
buffalo "delights to feed," and which is still good when dry and apparently ..."
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