cut-grass

American  

[kuht-gras, -grahs] / ˈkʌtˌgræs, -ˌgrɑs /

noun

1. any of several grasses having blades with rough edges, especially grasses of the genus Leersia.

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Etymology

Origin of cut-grass

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Retired judge Amar Saran says the mounting backlog has forced judges into a "cut-grass approach" - issuing quick, standard orders, from nudging the government to act to directing lower courts to handle the matter.

From BBC

To confirm the suspicion, the team sprayed cut-grass smell—a mix of three volatile chemicals—onto fields that hadn’t been mowed recently.

From Science Magazine

He loved that territory right down to the cut-grass, dry-dust smell of it.

From Literature

Across the city, on the other side of the hills, “the Olympics of urbanisation”, Habitat III – a once-every-20-years United Nations conference to discuss the future of the planet’s cities – has landed with a bureaucratic bang on the pristine, cut-grass lawns of central Quito’s El Arbolito park.

From The Guardian

That cut-grass scent, cis-3-hexanol, is called leaf alcohol.

From New York Times