Definition of Agrostis canina

1. Noun. Common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Agrostis Canina

Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina the Younger
Agrobacterium tumifaciens
Agropyron
Agropyron cristatum
Agropyron intermedium
Agropyron pauciflorum
Agropyron repens
Agropyron smithii
Agropyron subsecundum
Agropyron trachycaulum
Agrostemma
Agrostemma githago
Agrostis
Agrostis alba
Agrostis canina
Agrostis nebulosa
Agrostis palustris
Aguaruna
Aguascalientes
Agul
Aguly
Aguste
Ah Puch
Ahab
Ahabian
Aharon
Ahasuerus
Ahaz

Literary usage of Agrostis canina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"agrostis canina L. Sp. PI. 62. ¡753. Culms i°-2° tall, erect, slender, simple, smooth and glabrous. Sheaths shorter than the internodes; ligule i "-il" long ..."

2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"agrostis canina L. Sp. PI. 62 (1753). ... 391. Agrostis rubra alpina (Oakes) Scribn. agrostis canina var. ..."

3. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"agrostis canina. Brown Bent Grass. PLATE XXVIII. Branches of the panicle elongated, slender, erecto-patent, rough. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute, ..."

4. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"BROWN BENT or DOG'S BENT GRASS (agrostis canina), another species of agrostis, ... The ALPINE BROWN BENT (agrostis canina, var. al- pina), ..."

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