gardener's garters

1. 1.

   perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America

   Synonymsreed canary grasslady's lacesribbon grassPhalaris arundinacea

   Broadergrass

   Part ofPhalaris

Questions about gardener's garters

What does gardener's garters mean?

gardener's garters means "perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America".

What is another word for gardener's garters?

Close synonyms include reed canary grass, lady's laces, ribbon grass, Phalaris arundinacea. 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 gardener's garters a common word?

gardener's garters 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.