switchgrass

A tall North American perennial grass, of species Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.

Noun

  1. A tall North American perennial grass, of species Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
    • He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle. - 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35:

Origin

From switch + grass.

Forms

switchgrasses

Related

panic grass