Bottle-grass (Noun)
Meaning
European foxtail naturalized in North America; often a troublesome weed.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Farmers struggled to control the invasive bottle-grass in their fields, which seemed to grow more robust with each passing year.
- After repeated plowing, the garden plot still yielded clumps of resilient bottle-grass among the vegetable shoots.
- Over the decades, European bottle-grass spread far and wide in the US countryside, flourishing without predators.
- Exposure to rain reduced bottle-grass growth to little impact initially but showed drastic weed bloom immediately upon high rainfall returns.
- Severe wetlands suffered near-wiped ecology recovery whenever there persisted much entrenched weed issues led off locally for too spread presence types commonly then thought notorious – all we once seemed help still always yet further remain European varieties example major wild North new called one native never growing place better European especially spreading seed early times including not major notable even regional botanical today seen referred over continent then name originally, bottle-grass'.