yellow nutgrass

Questions about yellow nutgrass

What does yellow nutgrass mean?

yellow nutgrass means "European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers".

What is another word for yellow nutgrass?

Close synonyms include chufa, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, Cyperus esculentus. 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 yellow nutgrass a common word?

yellow nutgrass 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.