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noun
annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)
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love grass any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion
reed grass any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
bay grass any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion