rye grass

Other forms: rye grasses

Definitions of rye grass

1. noun

   any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses
   synonyms: ryegrass

   types:

   English ryegrass, Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass

   European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass

   Italian rye, Italian ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum

   European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure

   Lolium temulentum, bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, tare

   weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

   type of:

   grass

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay