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Noun: wire grass
  1. Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
    - broom beard grass, prairie grass, Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium
     
  2. Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
    - yardgrass, yard grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica

Derived forms: wire grasses

Type of: broom grass, millet

Part of: Eleusine, genus Eleusine