timothy grass

/ ˈtɪməθɪ /

noun

1. a perennial grass, Phleum pratense, of temperate regions, having erect stiff stems and cylindrical flower spikes: grown for hay and pasture

Word History and Origins

Origin of timothy grass¹

C18: apparently named after a Timothy Hanson, who brought it to colonial Carolina

Example Sentences

His team showed that mRNA-based immunization can completely protect mice from developing allergies against timothy grass, a common cause of hay fever9.

From Nature

Black Angus and red-brown Hereford cows grazed in a golden pasture of timothy grass.

From The New Yorker

This place—the tree with its peeling white bark, the walls, the field below scented with wild onions and timothy grass and the faintest odor of tar—he recognized them all.

From Literature

But it was a two-person task to administer her critical-care rabbit food, a powdered blend of timothy grass and soybean hulls to be mixed with warm water and syringed thrice daily past Judy’s unfriendly teeth.

From New York Times

Grasses available in the Black Hills meadows still include some native species, but also include some “introduced” species like timothy grass, brome grass, and Kentucky blue grass, said Julie Wheeler, the zoned rangeland management specialist for the Northern Hills District of the Black Hills National Forest.

From Washington Times