redtop

[ red-top ]

noun

1. any of several grasses of the genus Agrostis having reddish panicles, as A. gigantea, widely cultivated for lawns and pasturage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redtop¹

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; red ¹ + top ¹

Example Sentences

Soon Fox reached a place where the rye grass, or wild redtop, was very thick and tall.

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Foxtail (Setaria glauca), false redtop (Triodia flava), and panic grass (Panicum clandestinum) also occur commonly.

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Redtop, clover, and timothy grow rank, and are profitably cultivated.

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It was the stalks, above the upper joint, of spear-grass and redtop grass growing so profusely in Weathersfield.

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Timothy and redtop and witch-grass are the very children of olus.

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