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cheatgrasses

cheatgrasses is the plural of cheatgrass.

Meaning of cheatgrass

Noun

cheatgrass (countable and uncountable, plural cheatgrasses)

  1. Bromus tectorum, drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas
    • It took maybe nine or ten years more of westward drift, over the rolling prairie, through the cheatgrass, the sage grouse exploding skyward […]2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 98

Questions about cheatgrasses

What is cheatgrasses the plural of?
Cheatgrasses is the plural of cheatgrass.

Words near cheatgrasses in the dictionary

  1. cheaters never prosper
  2. cheatery
  3. cheatest
  4. cheateth
  5. cheatgrass
  6. cheatgrasses
  7. Cheatham
  8. Cheatham County
  9. Cheathams
  10. cheatier
  11. cheatiest

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