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yardgrass

noun

Grass in a lawn.

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crowfootgrass Indian goosegrass wiregrassyard grasswire grass goose grassEleusine indica

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nounyardgrass (uncountable)

uncountableGrass in a lawn.
Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.
1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150
uncountableEleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed.
The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.
1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34
Synonyms: crowfootgrass, Indian goosegrass, wiregrass

Synonyms & antonyms

nounEleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed.

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crowfootgrass Indian goosegrass wiregrass

More synonyms by meaning

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

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yard grasswire grass goose grassEleusine indica

Broader

Also see

indian goosegrass

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From yard + grass.

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APA

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MLA

“yardgrass.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yardgrass. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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