Crossword clues for cheatgrass
Wiktionary
cheatgrass
n. ''Bromus tectorum'', drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.
WordNet
cheatgrass
n. annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome, Bromus tectorum]
Usage examples of "cheatgrass".
The deserts and prairies are choked with mustard and cheatgrass and European beach grass.
This first patch of cheatgrass was in southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889.
Today, cheatgrass dominates the inland deserts from Canada to Nevada, covering an area over twice the size of the state of Nebraska and spreading by thousands of acres per year.
And every year it burns, there's more cheatgrass and less anything else.