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ˈhair-grass [After L. generic name Aira, with reference to the slender hair-like branches.] A name for grasses of the Linnæan genus Aira.
1759B. Stillingfl. On Grasses Misc. Tracts (1762) 371 To give such [names] as..approach as near as possible to the Latin names in sound where they could not be interpreted..Thus I have called the aira hair-grass, the bromus brome-grass, etc. 1798Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 123 The grass it now produces (chiefly the aira or hair grass) is so hard and wiry. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Aira, The tufted Hair-grass..is one of the tallest-growing British grasses. |