Lexic.us

Definition of Bahama grass

1. Noun. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bahama Grass

Literary usage of Bahama grass

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

1. The Colony of British Honduras: Its Resources and Prospects, with Particular by Sir Daniel Morris (1883)
"bahama grass. Natural grasses of the country. Rain-tree. Fodder and shade. Fruit-trees. Mango. Bread-fruit. Star-apple. ..."

2. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1894)
"bahama grass, which used to get spindly and thin, and even eventually disappear, at from six to eight months with a good cover, as also the Nut grass, ..."

3. Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation by Vassar College Folk-lore Foundation (1922)
"Boil with tall bahama grass and ... "If you don't feel like working, cut it up with tall bahama grass and ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"Cynodon Dactylon, our familiar southern pasture grass known in the United States as Bermuda grass and in the English West Indies as bahama grass, is called ..."

5. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"It is also known locally as dogs'-tooth grass, Bahama-grass and Scotch-grass. Several varieties have been named by botanists, some as distinct species. ..."

6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Cultivated for pasture. Naturalized from Europe. Wire-grass, Cane-grass, Bahama- grass, Indian Doob. July-Sept. 57. ..."

7. Select Extra-tropical Plants: Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1891)
"... and Bahama-Grass. An important grass for covering bare, barren land, or binding drift-sand, ..."

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