feather grass
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noun
any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
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Nearby words
- feather,
- feather banding,
- feather bed,
- feather duster,
- feather geranium,
- feather in one's cap,
- feather in one's cap, a,
- feather key,
- feather merchant,
- feather one's nest
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 GosseFeather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|VariousThat 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
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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