ˈhavergrass Obs. exc. north. dial.
[f. haver n.2]
‘Oat-grass’; a name for several wild grasses resembling oats; species of Avena and Bromus.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. xlvi. 505 Hauergrasse is..much like to Otes, in leaues, stemmes, and eares. 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xxii. (1633) 30 Hauer-grasse hath small creeping roots. 1713 J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 35 Single spiked Havergrass. 1879 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Haver- or Havver-Grass, the northern name for ‘oat-grass’. Bromus sterilis; Avena elatior; Bromus mollis. |