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Wheatgrass vs Cheatgrass - What's the difference?

wheatgrass | cheatgrass |

As nouns the difference between wheatgrass and cheatgrass

is that wheatgrass is young grass of the common wheat plant, triticum aestivum , used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption while cheatgrass is bromus tectorum , drooping brome, native to europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many us areas.

wheatgrass

English

(wikipedia wheatgrass)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum , used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
  • A grass of the genus , commonly known as (crested-wheat grass).

    • cheatgrass

    English

    (wikipedia cheatgrass)

    Noun

    (cheatgrasses)
  • Bromus tectorum , drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.

    • Quotations

    * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 98: *: It took maybe nine or ten years more of westward drift, over the rolling prairie, through the cheatgrass , the sage grouse exploding skyward [...]