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Definition of Cutgrass
1. Noun. A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of ''Leersia''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cutgrass
1. a swamp grass [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutgrass
Literary usage of Cutgrass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"The tender shoots of the reed with which the cutgrass is so apt to be confounded,
... True it is, that the cutgrass will itself present such a convoluted ..."
2. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... entangled bamboos and cutgrass, which were passable only on our hands and knees.
The day was excessively sultry—not a breath of air stirring —when ..."
3. Teaching Adolescent Writers by Kelly Gallagher (2006)
"I could smell the freshly cutgrass as the swing set came into view, and I saw
the fi/IC £ &.£. 77* II— one person I truly ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"... and covered with mats or straw,or short cutgrass well dried. Here they lie
for a fortnight or more, to sweat, as it is called, or to discharge some of ..."
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