yardgrass

noun — 2 senses

yardgrass

noun

Etymology From yard + grass.

1

Grass in a lawn.

Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150:

2

Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed.

The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34:

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