Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Agrostis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Yellowtop \Yel"low*top`\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of grass, perhaps a species of {Agrostis}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Agrostis \A*gros"tis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
A genus of grasses, including species called in common
language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop ({Agrostis
vulgaris}), are valuable pasture grasses.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Agrostis
n : annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern
hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an
area of unfenced grassland) [syn: {Agrostis}, {genus
Agrostis}]
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