feather grass

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noun

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

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Also called needle grass .

Origin of feather grass

First recorded in 1770–80

Words nearby feather grass

feather duster, feather-duster worm, feathered, featheredge, feather geranium, feather grass, featherhead, feathering, feather in one's cap, feather key, feather-legged

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How to use feather grass in a sentence

Feather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
Many of them display a downy lightness exquisitely lovely, as the common Feather-grass.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series|Philip Henry Gosse
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
A night hawk swooped and circled above the tall "feather grass" by the margin of the creek.
Keziah Coffin|Joseph C. Lincoln

The soil is sandy and gravelly glacial till which will raise little else beside feather grass and sumac.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the|Various

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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