bristle grass

1. 1.

   grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet

   Synonymsbristlegrass

   Broaderfoxtail

   Part ofSetaria

Questions about bristle grass

What does bristle grass mean?

bristle grass means "grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet".

What is another word for bristle grass?

Close synonyms include bristlegrass. 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 bristle grass a common word?

bristle 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.