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ˈhavergrass Obs. exc. north. dial. [f. haver n.2] ‘Oat-grass’; a name for several wild grasses resembling oats; species of Avena and Bromus.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xlvi. 505 Hauergrasse is..much like to Otes, in leaues, stemmes, and eares. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxii. (1633) 30 Hauer-grasse hath small creeping roots. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 35 Single spiked Havergrass. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n., Haver- or Havver-Grass, the northern name for ‘oat-grass’. Bromus sterilis; Avena elatior; Bromus mollis. |