Definitions for wire-grass

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Wire-Grass is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in wire-grass (-aegirrssw).

Definitions for wire-grass

noun

  1. Canada bluegrass.
  2. any of various grasses or rushes having wiry roots, culms, or leaves.

Origin of wire-grass

An Americanism dating back to 1745-55

Examples for wire-grass

It is known as crop grass, crab grass, wire grass, and crow's foot (Eleusine Indica).

He pillowed his head upon a tuft of wire grass, and gazed upward towards the spangled skies.

He stepped the distance carefully—Croyden following with the horses—and sunk his heel into the sand beside a clump of wire grass.

While the old man talked, he had been studying a clump of wire grass in the sand at his feet.

To add to this happy circumstance, in the hollow of the land there grew some wire grass, which indicated a moist situation.

About the mouth of the well was a wire grass that seemed to prevent it caving in.

Spring water was obtained by digging where a growth of wire grass indicated a moist situation.

I took her by the hand, and we dragged ourselves through the wire grass to the open end of a boiler lying in the sand.

A moment later the bow of the launch pushed its way through the wire grass and touched the bank.

Word Value for wire-grass
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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