What is "grasses"

Usage examples of "grasses".

The grasses they rode past were thicker, with traces of green, on the bottomland below the road.

Once the snow melted, in the eight-days ahead, he hoped that the spring grasses would cover that desolate grayness quickly.

Scattered patches of weedy growth, amid the grasses, had already begun to brown, and the once-intermittent patches of bare ground had become more and more common, almost joining in places to form a patchwork of red clay.

A good two hundred cubits short of the browned grasses that covered the ridge line ahead, grasses that hung limply in the morning light, Fornal slowed his mount, then nodded to the subofficer.

Ayrlyn continued to rough-plait weed stalks and grasses into mats which she had stacked along the trenches.

Metal mountains grumbled across the water-polished stone hills and smoothed them, ground them, and suffocated them beneath strange new soil, and grasses that had never been.

A golden bird, heavy and plumpish, burst out of the knee-high grasses below the road and soared eastward toward the even higher grasses.

Instead of the straggling, sun-browned stalks of the Grass Hills, the meadows flanking the road bore thicker grasses that, despite the approaching harvest time, were predominantly green.

So did the soil, and the trees, and even the grasses that surged along the new-forged lines of balance, seeking the old patterns sundered by the mighty planoforming engines of the Rationalists, engines that had ignored the balance that had been and would be.

Cyadoran forces, forces so numerous, numerous like the grasses of the plains.

The small, white variety is almost invariably grown or found growing spontaneously along with grasses, hence no definite place has been or can be assigned to it in the rotation.

Clover seeds, like those of grasses, are buried most deeply in the light soils of the prairie so light that they sink, so as to make walking over them unusually tiresome when working on newly plowed land, and in other instances so light as to lift with the wind.

Some other grasses may also be added under certain conditions, or substituted for timothy or redtop.

The grasses add to the permanency of the pastures, while the clovers usually furnish abundant grazing more quickly than the grasses.

Several of them, however, are more short-lived than grasses usually are, hence the latter are relied upon to furnish grazing after the clovers have begun to fail.