Meanings
- uncountableGrass of species Aristida oligantha.
[…] LINCECUM HYPOTHESIS The Lincecum Hypothesis, or the ant-rice story, is a strangely romantic idea from the Civil War era that has now lost favor. This controversy revolved around the claim that harvesters not only collect seeds […].
1998, Stephen Welton Taber, The World of the Harvester Ants, page 33
Origin
So called because it grows around ant nests in Texas and has been thought to be cultivated by the ants for the sake of its seed.
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