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Definition of Barley grass
1. Noun. European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barley Grass
Literary usage of Barley grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"... australi-s (barley grass and kangaroo grass of the colonists) growing on plains
or in open forests, very available, in every respect, ..."
2. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or, Modern Persia: Being Experiences of by Charles James Wills (1891)
"The barley-grass is cut by the grooms, by tearing handfuls of it against a curved
toothed sickle fixed upright in a piece of wood, and is given from two to ..."
3. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"The cultivation of the strong lands generally runs in the sixth course,—fallow,
wheat, beans, barley, grass, and oats,—though of late the pressure from low ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1901)
"Small barley grass, squirrel tail, and soft chess were among the next weedy
introductions; ... barley grass is eaten green in the spring before heading out, ..."
5. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvement of the by William Withering (1830)
"... the base of the inner or smaller valve, none of them either fringed or expanded
at the base. MEADOW barley grass. (H. pratense. Huds. ..."
6. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"The wall barley grass not unfrequently grows in such localities, but I have not
observed any very striking alteration of habit thus induced. ..."
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