Word Meanings - AGROSTIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

• Grasshopper
  Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in t
• Pasturer
  One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Commonly
  Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
• Grassiness
  The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Commonness
  State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
• Grassless
  Destitute of grass.
• Species
  Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
• Agrostis
  A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Commonplace
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• Grassplot
  A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn.
• Valuable
  Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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