June grass

American  

noun

1. Kentucky bluegrass.

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Etymology

Origin of June grass

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Food for snakes that lurked in the long June grass.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The thick June grass was coated with dew.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

The land was ribboned with growing grain, and the June grass was being cut.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

By piercing potatoes, carrots, etc., quack-grass, June grass, Bermuda grass are sometimes carried to other fields or farms where the tubers and roots are planted.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)