rescue grass

noun

1. a grass, Bromus unioloides (or B. catharticus ), of tropical America, having clusters of flattened spikelets, grown for forage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rescue grass¹

1880–85, Americanism; rescue, perhaps alteration of fescue

Example Sentences

A Lodger to the Rescue Grass was beginning to grow on the tiny lawn, all sorts of thrifty young seedlings were popping up in the flower beds, and Jean's pansies were actually beginning to blossom.

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