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Definition of Peppergrasses
1. peppergrass [n] - See also: peppergrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peppergrasses
Literary usage of Peppergrasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"Unfortunately, eight of tho little peppergrasses, with their father and mother
... resolved to have as little as possible to do with those peppergrasses, ..."
2. Seed Dispersal by William James Beal (1898)
"One of our peppergrasses, Lepidium intermedium, sometimes attains the size and
shape of a bushel basket; when ripe, it is blown about, sowing seeds wherever ..."
3. The Weed Flora of Iowa by L. H. Pammel, Charlotte M King, John Nathan Martin (1913)
"The peppergrasses are not difficult to exterminate in cultivated fields since
they are annuals. In growing timothy seed it is important above all to have a ..."
4. Robert and Harold, Or, The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by Francis Robert Goulding (1853)
"... the lambsquarter, the cresses and peppergrasses, to say nothing of the
pink-gilled mushrooms, and the fungus that grows from logs of hickory. ..."
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