deer grass
noun
Origin of deer grass
1An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
Words Nearby deer grass
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How to use deer grass in a sentence
The badge of the Mackenzies is the deer grass, or stag's horn moss.
Gairloch In North-West Ross-Shire | John H. Dixon, F.S.A. ScotBy its side grew clumps of deer-grass, with its purple-pink petals and masses of orange-colored stamens.
Everyday Adventures | Samuel ScovilleThe heather was short and stunted, with stretches of deer grass and flows; in fact, no good heather on the hill moors.
Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of Scotch Grouse Moors | William Alexander Adams
British Dictionary definitions for deergrass
deergrass
/ (ˈdɪəˌɡrɑːs) /
noun
a perennial cyperaceous plant, Trichophorum caespitosum, that grows in dense tufts in peat bogs of temperate regions
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