switch grass

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   grass of western America used for hay

   SynonymsPanicum virgatum

   Broaderpanic grass

Questions about switch grass

What does switch grass mean?

switch grass means "grass of western America used for hay".

What is another word for switch grass?

Close synonyms include Panicum virgatum. 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 switch grass a common word?

switch 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.