Poverty grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
    beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.

Webster 1913