"yardgrass" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From yard + grass. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|yard|grass}} yard + grass Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} yardgrass (uncountable)
  1. Grass in a lawn Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-yardgrass-en-noun-8k23j1p8
  2. Eleusine indica, a coarse annual grass often found as a weed Tags: uncountable Categories (lifeform): Cynodonteae tribe grasses
    Sense id: en-yardgrass-en-noun-nC6HTQnq Disambiguation of Cynodonteae tribe grasses: 38 62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: crowfootgrass, Indian goosegrass, wiregrass
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          "ref": "1998, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen, page 150:",
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          "ref": "1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34:",
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      "word": "Indian goosegrass"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wiregrass"
    }
  ],
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