reed canary grass

What does reed canary grass mean?

reed canary grass means "perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America".

What is another word for reed canary grass?

Close synonyms include gardener's garters, 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 reed canary grass a common word?

reed canary 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reed canary grass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.