Redtop

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A widely cultivated Eurasian grass (Agrostis gigantea) having reddish flower clusters.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle.
  • n. Species of the genus Agrostis, the bentgrasses.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of bent-grass, Agrostis vulgaris (A. alba, var. vulgaris).
  • Word Usage
    "Rhode Island Bent, known as redtop, is less exacting, and where it thrives to the exclusion of timothy, or is in evidence in grass lands, the inference is fairly safe that a test would show that the soil is sour."
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