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Johnson grass

A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.

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Sorghum 76% connected

A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the…

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Agrostis noun · 78% connection

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Blue grass unknown · 78% connection

A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.

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Browse noun · 78% connection

To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.

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Bull brier unknown · 78% connection

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous roo…

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Bunch grass unknown · 78% connection

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are…

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Corn noun · 78% connection

tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico…

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Darnel noun · 78% connection

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…

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Depasture v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.

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Doob grass unknown · 78% connection

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.

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Fireweed noun · 78% connection

tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abund…

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Frostweed noun · 78% connection

tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States

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Gama grass unknown · 78% connection

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…

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Golden polypody noun · 78% connection

mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Eu…

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Grama grass noun · 78% connection

pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America

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Gumbo noun · 78% connection

tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green po…

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Horsemint noun · 78% connection

tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern…

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