silver grass

noun

: any of several grasses or grasslike plants having silvery pubescence: such as

a

: ribbon grass

b

: a plant of the genera Danthonia, Deschampsia, and Festuca of Australia and New Zealand

c

: a golden aster (Chrysopsis graminifolia) of southern U.S. with silvery grasslike foliage

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