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Definition of Carpet grass
1. Noun. Grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus.
Group relationships: Genus Sporobolus, Sporobolus
Generic synonyms: Drop-seed, Dropseed
Definition of Carpet grass
1. Noun. Any of the genus ''Axonopus'' of American tropical and subtropical grasses, some of whicih are rhizomatous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpet Grass
Literary usage of Carpet grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of Agriculture by Henry Jackson Waters (1915)
"carpet grass. carpet grass is to the light and sandy soils what Bermuda grass is
to the heavier and richer soils of the South. ..."
2. Elements of Agriculture, Southern and Western by W. C. Welborn, H. Ness, Charles Emerson Sanborn, R. P. Marstellar (1908)
"carpet grass. — In the sandier districts, particularly in the southern part of
the Gulf States and the pine belt of the South Atlantic States, carpet grass ..."
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