Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable)Any of several species of tufted grasses of the genus Lolium.

    Perennial ryegrass is an important species for lawn seed mixes.

    Lolch, Weidelgras

    пле́велplével

    any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses

  2. (uncountable)A collection of plants of any of the species, as in a lawn or field.

    We seeded the meadow with ryegrass to provide better forage.

Translations

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Origin

From rye + grass. But compare English ray grass.

From rye + grass. But compare English ray grass.

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Forms

plural: ryegrasses
Singularryegrass
Pluralryegrasses

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses:rye grass

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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