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Definition of Deer grass
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America.
Group relationships: Genus Rhexia, Rhexia
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deer Grass
Literary usage of Deer grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"It II i:\IA, L. DEER-GRASS. MEADOW-BEAUTY. Calyx-tube urn-shaped, coherent with
the ovary below, and continued above it, persistent, 4-cleft at the apex. ..."
2. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"deer grass. St. nearly terete, covered with bristly hairs ; 1rs. lanceolate, ...
Maryland deer grass. ORDER LII. ..."
3. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... (deer-grass, meadow-beauty, p. Ju. Z£.) stem with winged angles, square, ...
(deer-grass, p. Ju.) glabrous, stem terete ; leaves lanceolate and ovate ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"deer grass. St. with 4-winged angles; 1rs. sessile, ... Maryland deer grass. St.
nearly terete, covered with bristly hairs; 1rs. lanceolate, acute, ..."
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