cup grass

noun

: any of several grasses constituting a genus (Erichloa) of annual and perennial grasses chiefly of warm or tropical regions

especially : a common weedy annual grass (E. contracta) of the eastern and central U.S. that has villous spikelets and the second glume acuminate

Word History

Etymology

so called from the shape of the callus

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