RUSH-GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rush-grass mean? 

• RUSH-GRASS (noun)
  The noun RUSH-GRASS has 1 sense:

1. grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles

  Familiarity information: RUSH-GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSH-GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rush-grass; rush grass

Hypernyms ("rush-grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("rush-grass" is a member of...):

genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))

 Context examples 

There was rush-grass on that stream—this he remembered well—but no timber, and he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was compelled to pause for frequent rests, when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)