timothy grass

British  

/ ˈtɪməθɪ /

noun

1. a perennial grass, Phleum pratense, of temperate regions, having erect stiff stems and cylindrical flower spikes: grown for hay and pasture

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Etymology

Origin of timothy grass

C18: apparently named after a Timothy Hanson, who brought it to colonial Carolina

Example Sentences

His team showed that mRNA-based immunization can completely protect mice from developing allergies against timothy grass, a common cause of hay fever9.

From Nature • Oct. 15, 2019

But it was a two-person task to administer her critical-care rabbit food, a powdered blend of timothy grass and soybean hulls to be mixed with warm water and syringed thrice daily past Judy’s unfriendly teeth.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

Flowering lupine, with root nodules that convert nitrogen into compounds necessary for plant growth, has seized a foothold on the pumice plain, along with the ubiquitous fireweed and timothy grass.

From Time Magazine Archive

This place—the tree with its peeling white bark, the walls, the field below scented with wild onions and timothy grass and the faintest odor of tar—he recognized them all.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

I untied my apron and filled it with timothy grass until it formed a soft pillow for Grandfather’s head.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson