English

Wikispecies

Noun

plume grass ‎(uncountable)

1. A kind of grass (Erianthus saccharoides) with the spikelets arranged in great silky plumes, growing in swamps in the Southern United States.
2. The still finer Erianthus ravennae from the Mediterranean region.
3. Any grass from the genus Erianthus.

References

• plume grass at plume in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913