bent-grass

Questions about bent-grass

What does bent-grass mean?

bent-grass means "grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens".

How many syllables are in bent-grass?

bent-grass has 2 syllables and divides as bent--grass under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bent-grass?

Close synonyms include bent, bent grass. 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 bent-grass a common word?

bent-grass 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.