tall oat grass

Questions about tall oat grass

What does tall oat grass mean?

tall oat grass means "coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage".

What is another word for tall oat grass?

Close synonyms include tall meadow grass, evergreen grass, false oat, French rye, Arrhenatherum elatius. 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 tall oat grass a common word?

tall oat 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.