rescue grass

noun

1. a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus ), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rescue grass¹

1880–85, Americanism; rescue, perhaps alteration of fescue

Example Sentences

Rescue-grass, res′kū-gras, n. a species of brome-grass, native to South America.

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