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Definition of Sword grass
1. Noun. Any of various grasses or sedges having sword-shaped leaves with sharp edges.
Definition of Sword grass
1. Noun. Any of various grasses with blades that are sharp enough to cut human skin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sword Grass
Literary usage of Sword grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"This may be the sword-grass of Tennyson's May Queen: ' The oat-grass and the
sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool;' or, perhaps, Poa aquatica, L., ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A gauntlet similar to the tilting-gauntlet. The oat-grass and the sword-prase
and the bulrush in the pool. Tennyson, May-Queen. Red sword-grass moth. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"This may be the sword-grass of Tennyson's May Queen: 'The oat-grass and the
sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool;' or, perhaps, Pua aquatica, L., ..."
4. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The Sword, or flattened and sharpened Club. — Natural and artificial Armature of
the Edge. — The Sword- grass, Leech, and Saw-fish. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Probably some species of Carex—not the sword-grass of Tennyson's ' New Year's
Eve,' as to which see Dict. of Eng. Plant-names, Tasker. ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"This may be the sword-grass of Tennyson's May Queen: ' The oat-grass and the
sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool;' or, perhaps, Poa aquatica, L., ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A gauntlet similar to the tilting-gauntlet. The oat-grass and the sword-prase
and the bulrush in the pool. Tennyson, May-Queen. Red sword-grass moth. ..."
8. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"This may be the sword-grass of Tennyson's May Queen: 'The oat-grass and the
sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool;' or, perhaps, Pua aquatica, L., ..."
9. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The Sword, or flattened and sharpened Club. — Natural and artificial Armature of
the Edge. — The Sword- grass, Leech, and Saw-fish. ..."
10. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Probably some species of Carex—not the sword-grass of Tennyson's ' New Year's
Eve,' as to which see Dict. of Eng. Plant-names, Tasker. ..."
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