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Definition of Silkgrass
1. Noun. Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Rice Grass, Ricegrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silkgrass
Literary usage of Silkgrass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1832)
"There is hemp, flax, silkgrass, several veins of ironstone, commodities to make
pitch, rosin, tar ; deal boards of all sorts, spars, masts, for ships of all ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1817)
"These «rmine skins are the same kind of narrow strips from the back of that
animal, which are sewed round a small cord of twisted silkgrass thick enough to ..."
3. The Genesis of the United States: A Narrative of the Movement in England by Alexander Brown (1891)
"Flanders (see Spain) 183, 198, 244, 536, 047, 103.:!. See United States of Holland
and the Netherlands. Flax (see silkgrass), 268, 317, 395, 492, 493, 564. ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"... or pappus, already mentioned, are wafted afar by the winds, beyond rivers,
lakes and seas ; as the thistle, dandelion, silkgrass. 605. ..."
5. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1902)
"These ermine skins are the same kind of narrow strips from the back of that
animal, which are sewed round a small cord of twisted silkgrass thick enough to ..."
6. The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation by Alexander Brown (1898)
"... tilling of the ground, planting silkgrass, etc ; wished a navigation set up
for the good of the Colony, and recommends Marmaduke Rayner [the pilot of ..."
7. History of the Virginia Company of London: With Letters to and from the by Edward Duffield Neill (1869)
"... silkgrass: Butt forasmuch as the Courte was wholly ignorant of the State of
the Collony wch by ..."
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