ryegrass

rye·grass

or rye grass R0361600 (rī′grăs′)n. Any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, native to Eurasia and often used for forage or for stabilizing soil.

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[Alteration of raygrass : ray, darnel (from Middle English rai, perhaps alteration of Old French ivraie, from Latin ēbriāca, from feminine of ēbriācus, drunk (from the plant's effects if ingested), from ēbrius; see inebriate) + grass.]

rye•grass

(ˈraɪˌgræs, -ˌgrɑs)

n. any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne, grown for forage in the U.S. [1740–50]

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ryegrass - any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grassesrye grassgrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as haygenus Lolium, Lolium - darnel; ryegrassEnglish ryegrass, Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass - European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grassItalian rye, Italian ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum - European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manurebearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous