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Definition of Goose grass
1. Noun. Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia.
Generic synonyms: Bedstraw
2. Noun. Low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia.
Generic synonyms: Cinquefoil, Five-finger
3. Noun. Annual weedy grass used for hay.
4. Noun. Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere.
Group relationships: Eleusine, Genus Eleusine
Generic synonyms: Millet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goose Grass
Literary usage of Goose grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"GOOSE-GRASS AND SPREADING SPEAR-GRASS These grasses, which in their spikelets
bear a resemblance to the Manna-grasses, are found only on the salt marshes ..."
2. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"On all such tracts goose grass springs up and dots the whole surface with ...
One will therefore never see any goose-grass hay except mixed with other kinds ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants: Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1857)
"On all such tracts goose grass springs up and dots the whole surface with ...
One will therefore never see any goose grass hay except mixed with other kinds ..."
4. Turf for Golf Courses by Charles Vancouver Piper, Russell Arthur Oakley (1917)
"The former include such plants as shepherd's-purse, smooth chickweed, and whitlow-
grass. The most serious summer annuals are goose- grass, pigeon-grass, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The herb goose-grass. GOOSE-CAP. A silly person. Dn-on. ... GOOSE-GRASS. Catch-weed'.
North. GOOSE-HEARD One who takes care of ?eese. See Harrison, p. 223. ..."
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