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Definition of Dactylis glomerata
1. Noun. Widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dactylis Glomerata
Literary usage of Dactylis glomerata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"... after Phleum pra- tense and Poa pratensis (the latter there called blue grass),
and before Dactylis glomerata, the orchard-grass of the United States. ..."
2. European Agriculture and Rural Economy: From personal observation by Henry Colman (1851)
"ORCHARD GRASS, OR COCKSFOOT, (Dactylis glomerata.} — The next grass much cultivated,
and most esteemed, is the orchard grass, or cocksfoot. ..."
3. The Agricultural Grasses of the United States by George Vasey, Clifford Richardson, United States Division of Botany (1884)
"Analyses of Dactylis glomerata (orchard grass) from various localities.
North Carolina Locality. District of Columbia Maine District of Columbia . ..."
4. Handy Book of the Flower-garden, Being Practical Directions for the by David Thomson (1876)
"Dactylis glomerata VARIEGATA—i foot.—A variegated form of a native grass, and
one of the most useful edging plants we possess. ..."