HyperDic: bristle_grass

English > 1 sense of the expression *bristle grass*:
NOUN	plant	bristle grass, bristlegrass	grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet

English > *bristle grass*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet.
Synonym	bristlegrass
Member of	Setaria, genus Setaria	annual or perennial grasses of warm regions
Broader	foxtail, foxtail grass	grasses of the genera ... / genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes