carpet grass

noun

1

: a tropical American pasture grass (Axonopus affinis) having broad leaves and flat prostrate stems and being useful for lawns in mild climates and also as a sand binder

called also Louisiana grass

2

: smut grass

Word History

Etymology

so called from the carpetlike smoothness of its turf

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