June grass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of June grass
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The thick June grass was coated with dew.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Food for snakes that lurked in the long June grass.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Charlie Granger, stake holder of ten thousand dollars, cut viciously at the June grass with his riding quirt and snapped his words out bluntly as he came striding up to Hume.
From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney
That was what the voice seemed to say to John McIntyre as he stood in the lush June grass, just on the borderland between the purple and the amber, and held his breath to listen.
From Treasure Valley by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
By creeping root-stocks, as June grass, quack-grass and toad-flax.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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