wire grass

1. 1.

   handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

   Synonymsbroom beard grassprairie grassAndropogon scopariusSchizachyrium scoparium

   Broaderbroom grass
2. 2.

   coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

   Synonymsyardgrassyard grassgoose grassEleusine indica

   Broadermillet

   Part ofEleusine

Questions about wire grass

What does wire grass mean?

wire grass means "handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wire grass?

Close synonyms include broom beard grass, prairie grass, Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium, yardgrass. 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 wire grass a common word?

wire 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.