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Definition of Means grass
1. Noun. Tall perennial grass that spreads by creeping rhizomes and is grown for fodder; naturalized in southern United States where it is a serious pest on cultivated land.
Generic synonyms: Sorghum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Means Grass
Literary usage of Means grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1848)
"The means grass, and its Cultivation. By JOHN LEWIS RUSSELL, Prof. Bot. &c.
to Mass. Hort. Soc. ON the 268th page of the 12th volume of this Magazine, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the ...by Scientific American, inc by Scientific American, inc (1905)
"It grows considerably larger than the species, and is said to remain green longer
in the fall. Johnson Grass or means grass (Sorghum ..."
3. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1854)
"BURNT CLAY, means grass, &c. Burnt clay is now extensively used, in some sections
of the country, as a manure for garden soil. It is generally prepared, ..."
4. Report on Education in Europe: To the Trustees of the Girard College for Orphans by Alexander Dallas Bache, Girard College (1839)
"What, then, do you think pasture means? Grass. What colour is grass ? It is green.
What kind of pasture does the Psalmist say the shepherd leads his sheep ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""Hay" means grass that has been cut and dried for fodder, but, where a complaint
speaks of hay as growing on land, the complaint will not be held ..."
6. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"In Cuba and other Spanish countries it is known as grama, which means grass, or
hierba fina, which means fine grass, hierba del prado, which means park ..."
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