Blue Grass State - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: blue grass stateBlue grass State
The Sate of Kentucky a nickname alluding to the blue grass region where fine horses are bred...
Blue grass
A species of grass Poa compressa with bluish green stems valuable in thin gravelly soils wire grass...
Blue Hen State
The State of Delaware a popular sobriquet It is said though the story lacks proof to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain named Caldwell that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen whence Blue Hens Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware...
Poa
A genus of grasses including a great number of species as the kinds called meadow grass Kentucky blue grass June grass and spear grass which see...
Blue eyed grass
a grasslike plant Sisyrinchium anceps with small flowers of a delicate blue color...
Bermuda grass
A kind of grass Cynodon Dactylon esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States It is a native of Southern Europe but is now wide spread in warm countries called also scutch grass and in Bermuda devil grass...
Gama grass
A species of grass Tripsacum dactyloides tall stout and exceedingly productive cultivated in the West Indies Mexico and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass called also sesame grass...
Johnson grass
A tall perennial grass Sorghum Halepense valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine Called also Cuba grass Means grass Evergreen millet and Arabian millet...
Para grass
A tall rather coarse grass Panicum molle formerly Panicum barbinode grown in the tropics for pasturage and introduced into the southern United States from Brazilas a valuable pasture grass...
Quitch grass
A perennial grass Agropyrum repens having long running rootstalks by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously and so becomes a troublesome weed Also called couch grass quack grass quick grass twitch grass See Illustration in Appendix...
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