wool grass

Related to wool grass: silk grass, sensitive fern, soft rush, cotton grass

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Noun	1.	wool grass - sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets Scirpus cyperinus sedge - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers genus Scirpus, Scirpus - rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs
	2.	wool grass - grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass Erianthus ravennae, Ravenna grass Erianthus, genus Erianthus - genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs plume grass - a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes

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Soil bulldozed to plug ditches created low places and other low areas were dug as vernal ponds, resulting in patches in which wetland plants such as wool grass (Scirpus cyperinus), cattails (Typha latifolia), soft rushes (Juncus effuses and J.

None was found on either of the tallest herbaceous plants, giant plume grass (Erianlhus ravennae), or wool grass; the latter was common in the wettest places on the grid.

It is noteworthy that no egg cases were found either on wool grass and giant plume grass, the tallest herbaceous plants on the grid.

Dispersion and temperature-associated orientation of Chinese mantis (Mantodea: Mantidae) egg cases

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