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Definition of Star grass
1. Noun. Any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic.
Generic synonyms: Liliaceous Plant
Group relationships: Aletris, Genus Aletris
Specialized synonyms: Ague Grass, Ague Root, Aletris Farinosa, Aletris Aurea, Yellow Colicroot
2. Noun. Any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America.
Specialized synonyms: American Star Grass, Hypoxis Hirsuta
Generic synonyms: Cormous Plant
3. 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
4. Noun. Perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill.
Generic synonyms: Finger Grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Star Grass
Literary usage of Star grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Study Plants: Or, Introduction to Botany, Being an Illustrated Flora by Alphonso Wood (1882)
"THE STAR-GRASS. Description.—While the open woodlands glow with the purple of
the Wild Geranium, and the meadows are touched with the rainbow tints of the ..."
2. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... Yellow Star-grass Hypoxis hirsute (H. erecta) Flowers—Bright yellow within,
greenish and hairy outside, ..."
3. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"Abundant iu a pond north of Sheffield with the last; also near Atherton.
July-September. 3. H. dubia (Jacq.) MacM. WATER star grass. ..."
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