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Answer for the clue "Tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners finger grass ", 7 letters:
chloris

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Chloris is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family , known generally as windmill grass or finger grass . The genus is found worldwide, but especially in the tropical and subtropical regions, and more often in the Southern Hemisphere . The species ...

Usage examples of chloris.

For perhaps a full second neither of the women spoke and then, for all the world as if they responded to some inaudible cue, Chloris and Madame Lisse were extremely gracious to each other.

Whenever Madame Lisse spoke he bent towards her and, whether her remark was grave or gay, he broke out into an exhibition of merriment calculated, Mandrake felt certain, to arouse in Chloris the pangs proper to the woman scorned.

Nicholas, who had the air of a professional diner-out, embarked upon a series of phrases directed equally, Mandrake thought, at Madame Lisse and Chloris Wynne.

Sandra Compline is to be believed, Miss Chloris broke off her engagement to Nicholas.

At first William and Chloris stared out through the windows and spoke in undertones.

Chloris Wynne, who had evidently decided to like her host, cried out in admiration, and Mandrake, who had decided to like Chloris Wynne, echoed her.

William gave her a look strangely compounded of malice and nervousness and strode after Chloris, who was walking with Mandrake.

Nicholas had joined them and Mandrake felt sure that Chloris was very much aware of him.

But if this was the case, what reason had Chloris given for the broken engagement with Nicholas?

He continued to avoid Nicholas but attached himself to Chloris Wynne and to William.

When Chloris said something to him it appeared for a moment that he had not heard her.

Compline brothers to become reconciled because you have given Nicholas an opportunity to do his barn-yard strut before Chloris Wynne?

Madame Lisse sat between Jonathan and Nicholas, Chloris between Nicholas and William.

They were successful gallantries, however, for both Chloris and Madame Lisse began to look alert and sleek.

Hersey Amblington and Chloris Wynne came in together, followed by Jonathan, who appeared to be in the best of spirits.