pin grass

Questions about pin grass

What does pin grass mean?

pin grass means "European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage".

What is another word for pin grass?

Close synonyms include redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria. 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 pin grass a common word?

pin 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.