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Definition of Perennial ryegrass
1. Noun. European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perennial Ryegrass
Literary usage of Perennial ryegrass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland by Wellwood H. Maxwell (1863)
"The same gentleman has also tried Cock's foot grass, but did not find it equal
as pasture to perennial ryegrass. Perhaps the greatest drawback to the use of ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1868)
"As to perennial ryegrass, he did not consider it a pasture plant at all ; and he
... It was equally as early as perennial ryegrass ; and that was the only ..."
3. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1869)
"the seed sold as perennial ryegrass seed is only heavier qualities of tho seed
of the same plant as that sold as annual ryegrass seed. ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"This list includes several species which are not permanent, but of short duration,
as Timothy, Italian and perennial, ryegrass, red and Alsike clover, ..."
5. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1900)
"The paddock was laid off into three equal parts, and sown with perennial ryegrass,
meadow fescue, and Italian ryegrass. When well grown, sheep were turned ..."
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