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Definition of Bay grass
1. Noun. Any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Eragrostis, Genus Eragrostis
Specialized synonyms: Eragrostic Abyssinica, Eragrostis Tef, Teff, Teff Grass, African Love Grass, Eragrostis Curvula, Weeping Love Grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bay Grass
Literary usage of Bay grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... or BAY-GRASS. Inflorescence a simple spike with the spikelets solitary in
notches, excavated alternately on opposite sides of the rhachis. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Bay-grass. See Grass, Bay. Bay-grass, Italian. A commercial name for Lolium
italicum, A. Br. Beck. ' Sea wrack of different kinds.' Yks. (Cleveland). ..."
3. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"Bcets Nothing 7.500 Fodder maize Nothing 14.500 Oats Field cabbage 0.370 Hemp
Nothing 10.500 Peas Rape 0.510 Bay-grass Bay-grass 0.380 Clover Clover 1.100 ..."
4. Memoirs by George Washington (1889)
"... and Botany bay grass seeds, I shall commit to your care, as there is enough
of the former, that is of the different kinds of Turnips, if good, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(1) Lolium perenne, L.—A general name in agriculture, corrupted from Bay-grass (which
see). Ches.; E. Yks.; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Prior, p. 195. ..."
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