Andropogon

noun

An·​dro·​po·​gon

: a large and important genus of almost cosmopolitan grasses with spikelike racemes having the flowers in pairs, one sterile and one fertile see bluestem, broom sedge

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from andr- + -pogon

First Known Use

circa 1763, in the meaning defined above

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