a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence
feather grass in American English
noun
any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage
Word origin
[1770–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1770–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: advisory, colonial, parka, red flag, taboo
Examples of 'feather grass' in a sentence
feather grass
We discovered that restoration of the herbs-fescue-feather-grass and fescue-feather-grass steppes after fires occursat different rates.
V. V. Shcherbyna, I. A. Maltseva, Y. I. Maltsev, A. N. Solonenko 2017, 'Post-pyrogenic changes in vegetation cover and biological soil crust in steppe ecosystems',Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystemshttps://medicine.dp.ua/index.php/med/article/view/392. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)