Terms vs Agrostis - What's the difference?
terms | agrostis |
Any grass of the genus Agrostis, bentgrass.
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Katharine Prescott Wormeley, title=The Lily of the Valley, chapter=, edition=, by=
, 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=
, 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. }}
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As nouns the difference between terms and agrostis
is that terms is while agrostis is any grass of the genus agrostis, bentgrass.agrostis
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