Lawn vs Yardgrass - What's the difference?
lawn | yardgrass |
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
* , chapter=1
, title= (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
(uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
(in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
(countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
* 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :
Grass in a lawn
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Tabor Evans, title=Longarm and the Wyoming Wildwomen
, passage=Longarm followed the path in the yardgrass to a cellar door at the rear of the bigger frame church.}}
Eleusine indica , a coarse annual grass often found as a weed
* {{quote-book, year=1991, author=David Moresby Moore, title=Plant Life
, passage=The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions. }}
As a proper noun lawn
is a town in newfoundland and labrador.As a noun yardgrass is
grass in a lawn.lawn
English
(wikipedia lawn)Etymology 1
Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English landNoun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Derived terms
* lawn mower * lawnedEtymology 2
Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.Noun
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
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