carpet grass

1. 1.

   grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus

   Synonymssmut grassblackseedSporobolus poiretii

   Broaderdropseed

   Part ofSporobolus

Questions about carpet grass

What does carpet grass mean?

carpet grass means "grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus".

What is another word for carpet grass?

Close synonyms include smut grass, blackseed, Sporobolus poiretii. 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 carpet grass a common word?

carpet 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.