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Definition of Canary grass
1. Noun. Canary Islands grass; seeds used as feed for caged birds.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Genus Phalaris, Phalaris
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canary Grass
Literary usage of Canary grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... L. canary grass Spikelets 1-flowered, laterally flattened ; glumes equal,
boat-shaped, much exceeding the florets ; sterile lemmas small and narrow, ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Reed canary- grass is native to the temperate portions of Europe, Asia and North
... Reed canary-grass is a long- lived, rather coarse perennial grass. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Southern or Wild Canary-grass. Ribbon-grass, California Timothy, Southern Reed-grass.
Fox-tail-grass. June-Aug. ; :V \ 4- 3. ..."
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