June grass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of June grass
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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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
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)
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
That was what the voice seemed to say to John McIntyre as he stood in the lush June grass, just on the borderland between the purple and the amber, and held his breath to listen.
From Treasure Valley by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
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