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Definition of Bent-grass
1. Noun. Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Agrostis, Genus Agrostis
Specialized synonyms: Agrostis Canina, Brown Bent, Dog Bent, Rhode Island Bent, Velvet Bent, Velvet Bent Grass, Agrostis Nebulosa, Cloud Grass, Agrostis Palustris, Creeping Bent, Creeping Bentgrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bent-grass
Literary usage of Bent-grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"CREEPING BENT GRASS. A well known perennial, creeping or stoloniferous, 1-3 ft.
... FINE BENT GRASS. Distinguished from the type by the smaller ligule, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"The bent grass. Somerset. According to an ancient West country distich— •• Pigeons
never know no woe Tul they a brandling dogo. ..."
3. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"Brown Bent Grass. PLATE XXVIII. Branches of the panicle elongated, slender,
erecto-patent, rough. Glumes unequal, lanceolate, acute, rough on the keel. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"(2) A plain ; a common ; a field ; a moor ; so called from those places being
frequently covered with the bent grass. Willan says bents are " high pastures ..."
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