agrostis

agrostis has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
• n.. annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)