yardgrass

Questions about yardgrass

What does yardgrass mean?

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

How many syllables are in yardgrass?

yardgrass has 2 syllables: yard-grass. The stress falls on "yard".

What is another word for yardgrass?

Close synonyms include yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica. 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 yardgrass a common word?

yardgrass 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.