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

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

a. : a European slender-stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the United States and Canada — called also Canada bluegrass

b. : yard grass

c. : bermuda grass

d. : any of several grasses of the genus Aristida

e. : any of several grasses of the genus Sporobolus

f. : nimble will

g. : little bluestem

h. : broomroot

wire grass noun

1. A kind of fine meadow grass (Poa compressa)

2. Any of various other grasses with wiry stems

Main Entry: ↑wire

wire grass,

any one of various grasses having wiry stems or leaves, especially a slender Old-World meadow grass, naturalized in North America, and the yard grass.

n. a grass with tough wiry stems. ● Genera Aristida and Poa, family Gramineae: several species, including the European P. compressa, which has become naturalized in North America