Nut grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
    nut sedge; nutgrass; Cyperus rotundus; nutsedge.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields.

Webster 1913