ribbon grass

What does ribbon grass mean?

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

What is another word for ribbon grass?

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

ribbon 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 ribbon grass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.