Agrostis
noun
Agros·tis
ə-ˈgrä-stəs
: a large and widely distributed genus of grasses having an open or contracted panicle with small one-flowered spikelets and including important pasture, hay, and lawn grasses see bent sense 2d, redtop
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin, couch grass, from Greek agrōstis, a grass
First Known Use
circa 1543, in the meaning defined above