rye-grass

British  

noun

1. any of various grasses of the genus Lolium , esp L. perenne , native to Europe, N Africa, and Asia and widely cultivated as forage crops. They have a flattened flower spike and hairless leaves

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rye-grass

There are no green bits, whatever those candied fruits are that masquerade in that not-found-in-nature shade of rye-grass green.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023

Italian rye-grass is the most liable to the ravages of this pest, and there are on record several cases in which ergotted rye-grass proved fatal to the animal fed upon it.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

This is the earliest mention in a Hawsted lease of rye-grass, clover, and turnips, though clover and turnips had been first cultivated there about 1700, and soon spread.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

From there up to the hill--I will tell you about the rest afterwards--you may sow Timothy, rye-grass, and white clover, with the barley.

From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz

The grasses they fed upon were mixtures of cocks-foot, timothy, rye-grass, and white clover.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember