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Definition of Crested wheat grass
1. Noun. Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control.
Exact synonyms: Agropyron Cristatum, Crested Wheatgrass, Fairway Crested Wheat Grass
Generic synonyms: Wheat-grass, Wheatgrass
Generic synonyms: Wheat-grass, Wheatgrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crested Wheat Grass
Literary usage of Crested wheat grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1830)
"Crested Wheat-grass. Chaff-scales elliptical, awned, keeled, indistinctly ribbed;
flowers awned; spikelets of about four straws about eighteen inches high, ..."
2. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1853)
"Crested Wheat grass, native of Scotland, the roots consist of several long,
strong, woolly fibres, suited to sandy soils, grows 12 to 18 inches high, ..."
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