yardgrass — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Grass in a lawn.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.

2. Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed.

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Synonyms

   crowfootgrassIndian goosegrasswiregrass

   Examples

   The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.

Noun

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

   Synonyms

   yard grasswire grassgoose grassEleusine indica

   Broader terms

   millet