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Nutgrass vs Cutgrass - What's the difference?

nutgrass | cutgrass |

As nouns the difference between nutgrass and cutgrass

is that nutgrass is a perennial sedge, cyperus rotundus , that has small edible nutlike tubers while cutgrass is a grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of.

nutgrass

English

(wikipedia nutgrass)

Alternative forms

*nut grass, nut-grass

Noun

(es)
  • A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus , that has small edible nutlike tubers

    • cutgrass

    English

    (wikipedia cutgrass) (Leersia)

    Noun

  • A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of .
    • (Webster 1913)