Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wire_grass

2 senses of wire grass

Sense 1
broom beard grass, prairie grass, wire grass, Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium -- (handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn)
       => broom grass -- (any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making)

Sense 2
yardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica -- (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)
       => millet -- (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)