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speargrass

noun

Etymology

From spear + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. compounded as speargrass — “spear + grass”

Definitions

  1. Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.

  2. Species of Aciphylla (Spaniard grass)

The neighborhood

Derived

fiveawn speargrass

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for speargrass. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA