Meaning of penny-grass | Babel Free

Definitions

yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor or Rhinanthus major (syn. Rhinanthus crista-galli)).

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Another Graſs is called Penny-Graſs; it groweth low, cloſe to the Earth, in mooriſh Grounds; it hath a Leaf as broad as Twopence , but never beareth a Flower.”

“Nor taint-worm ſhall infect the yeaning herds / Nor penny-graſs, nor ſpearwort's poiſ'nous leaf.”

“Plants reported killed by copper sulphate solutions: Wild mustard, wild radish, wild barley, penny grass (if young), shepherds' purse , wild buckwheat[…]”

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