rescue grass

noun

a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.

Origin of rescue grass

1880–85, Americanism; rescue, perhaps alteration of fescue

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Rescue-grass, res′kū-gras, n. a species of brome-grass, native to South America.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
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