buffalo grass

Questions about buffalo grass

What does buffalo grass mean?

buffalo grass means "low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for buffalo grass?

Close synonyms include St. Augustine grass, Stenotaphrum secundatum, Buchloe dactyloides. 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 buffalo grass a common word?

buffalo grass is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.