switchgrass

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English

Switchgrass in North Dakota

Etymology

switch +‎ grass

Noun

switchgrass (countable and uncountable, plural switchgrasses)

  1. A tall North American perennial grass, Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
    • 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35:
      He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle.

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