feather grass

noun

any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.

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Words nearby feather grass

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Origin of feather grass

First recorded in 1770–80

Also called needle grass.

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Examples from the Web for feather grass

Many of them display a downy lightness exquisitely lovely, as the common Feather-grass.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series|Philip Henry Gosse
Feather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
That is the "feather-grass;" it is a very rare grass, and has been seldom found wild in this country.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. Houghton

British Dictionary definitions for feather grass

feather grass

noun

a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence

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