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sweetgrass

sweetgrass noun: mannagrass, in genus Glyceria.

Noun

sweetgrass (countable and uncountable, plural sweetgrasses)

  1. mannagrass, in genus Glyceria
  2. Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America
  3. Muhlenbergia filipes, a grass native to the southeastern United States

Forms of sweetgrass

pluralsweetgrasses

Origin of sweetgrass

From sweet + grass.

Questions about sweetgrass

What does sweetgrass mean?
Sweetgrass means mannagrass, in genus Glyceria.
What part of speech is sweetgrass?
Sweetgrass is a noun.
What is the plural of sweetgrass?
The plural of sweetgrass is sweetgrasses.

Words near sweetgrass in the dictionary

  1. sweetful
  2. sweetfully
  3. sweetfulness
  4. sweetgale
  5. sweetgales
  6. sweetgrass
  7. sweetgrasses
  8. sweetgum
  9. sweetgum tree
  10. sweetgum trees
  11. sweetgums

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