orchard grass

noun

1. a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.

Word History and Origins

Origin of orchard grass¹

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

I see myself now, face downwards in the orchard grass, broken-hearted by the calamity.

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I usually grow millet in the orchard for seven or eight years, and then—if anything—clover or orchard-grass.

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Our opinion is, that guanoed land should always be sowed to clover, or clover and orchard grass.

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The last of the new-tasting bough apples lie in the orchard grass.

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Ken did find wood--not in the woodshed, but strewing the orchard grass; hard old apple-wood, gray and tough.

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