Crossword-Solution: AGROSTIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Agrostis | n. | A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses. |
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| Grass | 59 answers |
| Bent | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with AGROSTIS (5)
Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love’s earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings.
Along the edges of the meadows beneath the pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon-leaved grasses grow in abundance, chiefly bromus, triticum and agrostis.
Some of the good annual grasses are _Agrostis nebulosa_, the brizas, _Bromus brizæformis_, the species of eragrostis and pennisetums, and _Coix Lachryma_ as a curiosity.
Our domestic animals, that have some liberty, are also possessed of some peculiar traditional knowledge: dogs and cats have been forced into each other's society, though naturally animals of a very different kind, and have hence learned from each other to eat dog's grass (agrostis canina) when they are sick, to promote vomiting.
The tops of old witch grass, _Panicum capillare_, and hair grass, _Agrostis hyemalis_, become very brittle when ripe, and snap from the parent stem and tumble about singly or in masses, scattering seeds by the millions.