Noun

(en-noun)

Any grass of the genus Agrostis, bentgrass.

* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Katharine Prescott Wormeley, title=The Lily of the Valley, chapter=, edition=, by= citation

, passage=Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis , which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses--bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis , etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist. }} ----

Noun

Any of numerous reedy grass species of the genus Agrostis .