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Definition of Reed grass
1. Noun. Any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere.
Group relationships: Calamagrostis, Genus Calamagrostis
Specialized synonyms: Calamagrostis Acutiflora, Feather Reed Grass, Feathertop, Australian Reed Grass, Calamagrostic Quadriseta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reed Grass
Literary usage of Reed grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"In Nut- tail's Reed-grass the stouter awn is readily seen under the microscope,
as is also the prolonged rachilla which bears a tiny thistle-head of white ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1889)
"Panicle loose and more slender, branches drooping in flower, spikelets H-2 lines
long 824 82. Cinna arundinacea L. ; Wood reed grass. 82%. ..."
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