Definition of Cloud grass

1. Noun. Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets.

Exact synonyms: Agrostis Nebulosa
Generic synonyms: Bent, Bent Grass, Bent-grass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloud Grass

cloud-cuckoo-land
cloud-seeding
cloud 9
cloud bank
cloud base
cloud bases
cloud burst
cloud ceiling
cloud chamber
cloud computing
cloud cover
cloud cuckoo-land
cloud deck
cloud genera
cloud genus
cloud nine
cloud on title
cloud over
cloud point
cloud points
cloud seeder
cloud seeding
cloud species
cloud street
cloud streets
cloud up
cloudage
cloudages
cloudbank

Literary usage of Cloud grass

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

1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"A. Walkeri is a hybrid between A. coronaria and A. Flos-jovis, very compact, free flowering, and rich in colour. AGROSTIS (cloud grass). ..."

2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"A. Walkeri is a hybrid between A. coronaria and A. Flos-Jovis, very compact, free flowering, and rich in colour. AGROSTIS (cloud grass). ..."

3. A Dictionary of Sanscrit and English, Designed for the Use of Private by William Yates (1846)
"2./. Flow of water. (W:) 1. m. A tree, the nut of which is used for clearing water, (Strychnos potatorum.) [ (fi) 5. m. Cloud ; grass* . m. Side of a river. ..."

4. Truly Rural by Richardson Little Wright (1922)
"Stipa pennata or feather grass, with the delicate, silvery white feathery plumes; the curious Briza gracilis and cloud grass, agrostis, would afford ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"When describing the 18 Some of the words were : knife, river, dog, church, soap, cloud, grass, king, lyre, Cerberus, druid, tournament, King Arthur, wand, ..."

6. The College Gateway by Charles Franklin Thwing (1918)
"... the excellency of the Divine Being as manifest in the sun, sky, cloud, grass, flower, trees, and all nature. He heard the voice of God in the thunder; ..."

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