arrhenatherum elatius

Questions about arrhenatherum elatius

What does arrhenatherum elatius mean?

arrhenatherum elatius means "coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage".

What is another word for arrhenatherum elatius?

Close synonyms include tall oat grass, tall meadow grass, evergreen grass, false oat, French rye. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arrhenatherum elatius a common word?

arrhenatherum elatius is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.