star grass

noun

1. any of various grasslike plants having star-shaped flowers or a starlike arrangement of leaves, as the North American plant, Hypoxis hirsuta, of the amaryllis family.

star grass

noun

1. any of various temperate and tropical plants of the amaryllidaceous genus Hypoxis , having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers

Word History and Origins

Origin of star grass¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Her eyes, blue as the little fairy blossoms of the star-grass now, were breeze blown in the meadow of her gladness.

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The whole was thatched with star-grass or sea-reed, blackened with smoke and moisture.

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Star-grass, queries Pitcairn; but is it not rather fox-tree—fox-glove?

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The rising wind whistled in the prickly star-grass and sea-holly.

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