feather grass

noun

1. any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.

feather grass

noun

1. a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence

Word History and Origins

Origin of feather grass¹

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

Feather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.

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Many of them display a downy lightness exquisitely lovely, as the common Feather-grass.

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That is the "feather-grass;" it is a very rare grass, and has been seldom found wild in this country.

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A night hawk swooped and circled above the tall "feather grass" by the margin of the creek.

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The soil is sandy and gravelly glacial till which will raise little else beside feather grass and sumac.

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