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hairgrass

hairgrass noun: any of various grasses thought to resemble hair, including those of genera Aira, Deschampsia, Koeleria, and others.

Noun

hairgrass (countable and uncountable, plural hairgrasses)

  1. Any of various grasses thought to resemble hair, including those of genera Aira, Deschampsia, Koeleria, and others.
  2. Any of certain species of sedge in the genus Eleocharis.

Forms of hairgrass

pluralhairgrasses

Origin of hairgrass

From hair + grass.

Words formed from hairgrass

  • Antarctic hairgrass
  • slender hairgrass
  • tufted hairgrass

Questions about hairgrass

What does hairgrass mean?
Hairgrass means any of various grasses thought to resemble hair, including those of genera Aira, Deschampsia, Koeleria, and others.
What part of speech is hairgrass?
Hairgrass is a noun.
What is the plural of hairgrass?
The plural of hairgrass is hairgrasses.

Words near hairgrass in the dictionary

  1. hairfluencer
  2. hairfluencers
  3. hairful
  4. hairfuls
  5. Hairgate
  6. hairgrass
  7. hairgrasses
  8. hairgrip
  9. hairgrips
  10. hairhat
  11. hairhats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairgrass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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