Lexic.us

Definition of Rye grass

1. Noun. Any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rye Grass

Literary usage of Rye grass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"It adds to the weight of ilie hay, and the sterns of the rye-grass are a good corrective U> the richness of the clover, when they are given to horses in a ..."

2. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"A third field of beans in 1879 was preceded by Italian rye- grass in 1878 and 1877, wheat in 1876, beaus in 1875, grass in 1874 and 1873, wheat in 1872, ..."

3. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"In distinction to Italian rye-grass, it is known either as perennial or ... Perennial rye-grass was the first of all perennial grasses to be grown in pure ..."

4. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"In distinction to Italian rye-grass, it is known either as perennial or ... Perennial rye-grass was the first of all perennial grasses to be grown in pure ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Of the numerous varieties common perennial rye-grass is most generally cultivated. A form called annual rye-grass—not really an annual plant, ..."

6. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"PERENNIAL rye grass (Lolium perenne L.) and Italian rye grass (L. italicum A. Br.) are not properly included under perennial forage grasses, since neither ..."

7. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"PERENNIAL rye grass (Lolium perenne L.) and Italian rye grass (L. italicum A. Br.) are not properly included under perennial forage grasses, since neither ..."

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