"windgrass" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: windgrasses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} windgrass (plural windgrasses)
  1. (Lachnagrostis) A common slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground, or around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins and coastal areas. Categories (lifeform): Poeae tribe grasses Translations ((Lachnagrostis) a grass): repehia (Maori), perehia (Maori)

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