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rice grass

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noun

  1. another name for cord grass

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Specific to Arizona, galleta, sand dropseed, Indian rice grass and grama grass are better for growing during a drought than fescue, rye and Kentucky bluegrass, Hauser says.

From Washington Post Sep. 20, 2021

On a second foray, the men light upon five more mustangs picking at strands of Indian rice grass in a boulder-strewn ravine.

From Time Magazine Archive

While she gathered plants, he watched the cattle grazing in the tall yellow rice grass that grew above the arroyo just to the edge of the juniper trees.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The country is cultivated in sugar, cotton, rice, grass, etc.

From A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California by Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)

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