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Definition of Tumble grass
1. Noun. North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land.
Generic synonyms: Panic Grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumble Grass
Literary usage of Tumble grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"tumble grass, ÜLD WITCH GRASS. A diffuse plant, common in cornfields and other
cultivated grounds, and rolling before the wind in the fall ; sheaths, ..."
2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"tumble grass, OLD WITCH GRASS. A diffuse plant, common in cornfields and other
cultivated grounds, and rolling before the wind in the fall; sheaths, ..."
3. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Such plants are "tumble-weeds." Examples are Russian thistle (Fig. 99), hair-grass
or tumble-grass (Panicum capillare), cyclone plant (Cy- ..."
4. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"They will get in a draw full of tumble-grass, on a cold day when quail don't like
to fly, and stay right with them; and even after feeding on two or three, ..."
5. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, F. Lamson-Scribner (1904)
"... GRASS, tumble grass. An annual with usually coarse, branching stems, i to 3
feet (2-6 dm.) long, with very hairy leaf-sheaths and capillary, ..."
6. Bulletin by Ohio Biological Survey (1915)
"... but later becoming exserted and finally breaking off at maturity as a tumble
grass. Spikelets acute; outer empty glume Y^-Y2 as long as the spikelet. ..."
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