love grass

love·grass

or love grass L5279300 (lŭv′grăs′)n. Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the genus Eragrostis, some of which are cultivated for their delicate, spraylike inflorescences.

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love grass - any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosionbay grassgrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayEragrostis, genus Eragrostis - annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropicsEragrostic abyssinica, Eragrostis tef, teff, teff grass - an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hayAfrican love grass, Eragrostis curvula, weeping love grass - perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems; introduced into United States especially for erosion control