crested wheatgrass

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   Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control

   Synonymscrested wheat grassfairway crested wheat grassAgropyron cristatum

   Broaderwheatgrass

Questions about crested wheatgrass

What does crested wheatgrass mean?

crested wheatgrass means "Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control".

What is another word for crested wheatgrass?

Close synonyms include crested wheat grass, fairway crested wheat grass, Agropyron cristatum. 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 crested wheatgrass a common word?

crested wheatgrass 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.