Akademik

poverty grass

noun

small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

• Syn: ↑beach heather, ↑Hudsonia tomentosa

• Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hudsonia, ↑genus Hudsonia

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noun

1. : any of several slender grasses: as

a. : an erect American grass (Aristida dichotoma)with dichotomously branched culms found in dry sandy soil

b. : an oat grass (Danthonia spicata)

2. : beach heather

3. : broom crowberry

4. : rabbit-foot clover

Useful english dictionary. 2012.