bristlegrass

Questions about bristlegrass

What does bristlegrass mean?

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

How many syllables are in bristlegrass?

bristlegrass has 3 syllables and divides as brist-le-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 bristlegrass?

Close synonyms include bristle 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 bristlegrass a common word?

bristlegrass 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.