switchgrass

See also: switch grass

English

Switchgrass in North Dakota

Etymology

switch +‎ grass

Noun

switchgrass (countable and uncountable, plural switchgrasses)

1. A tall North American perennial grass, Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
   • 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 35:

     He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle.

Translations

Panicum virgatum

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: стрелковидна трева f (strelkovidna treva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柳枝稷 (liǔzhījì)

• Finnish: lännenhirssi, luutahirssi
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rutenhirse f
• Korean: 큰개기장 (keun'gaegijang)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• panic grass

References

• switchgrass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Panicum virgatum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Panicum virgatum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Panicum virgatum at USDA Plants database