Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of Bermuda grass.
Bond paid off the cab at The Everglades, a group of neat white-and-yellow clapboard cottages set on three sides of a square of Bahama grass which ran fifty yards down to a bone-white beach and then to the sea.
1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 1251 more example
In the meantime, Tichborne worked himself into a fury about Bahama grass. It had been planted years ago by Ballard, intended as a pretty border round the estate, but had proved rapacious and near impossible to eradicate. It dug itself in everywhere, spread rapidly, sucked the life out of the soil, killed off native species, and was altogether a blight upon the land.
2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 299Synonyms: Bermuda grass
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Bermuda grass.
More synonyms by meaning
nountrailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Bahama grass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bahama%20grass
“Bahama grass.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bahama%20grass. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bahama grass,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bahama%20grass.
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