feather grass
noun
any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
Also called
needle grass.
Origin of feather grass
First recorded in 1770–80
Words nearby feather grass
Example sentences from the Web for feather grass
Many of them display a downy lightness exquisitely lovely, as the common Feather-grass.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series |Philip Henry GosseFeather-grass, the popular name of Stipa pennata, a native of dry places in the south of Europe.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia |VariousThat is the "feather-grass;" it is a very rare grass, and has been seldom found wild in this country.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |W. Houghton
British Dictionary definitions for feather grass
feather grass
noun
a perennial grass, Stipa pennata, native to the steppes of Europe and N Asia, cultivated as an ornament for its feathery inflorescence