Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flyaway grass

Flyaway grass

(Botany) The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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