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Definition of Devil 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.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Cynodon, Genus Cynodon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devil Grass
Literary usage of Devil grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Martyr of the Pongas: Being a Memoir of the Rev. Hamble James Leacock by Henry Caswall (1857)
"Joy at the Discovery of Devil-grass. Dr. Bradshaw's advice as to a House.
The Niger Considered. Plaintain Island and John Newton. Further Delay. ..."
2. The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's by John Lawson Stoddard (1910)
"Every man must eradicate his own devil-grass. The neighbors who have leisure to
help you in grape-picking time are all busy when devil- grass is most ..."
3. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price, Charles Dudley Warner, Geo. C. Rand & Avery (1871)
"Every man must eradicate his own devil-grass. ... busy when devil-grass is most
aggressive. My neighbors' visits are well tuned: it is only their hens which ..."
4. My summer in a garden by Charles Dudley Warner (1871)
"Every man must eradicate his own devil-grass. The neighbours who have leisure to
help you in grape-picking time are all busy when devil-grass is most ..."
5. Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"his clever little book " My Summer in a Garden," gives an amusing description of
his efforts to eradicate from the soil what he calls " devil-grass. ..."
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