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Sour grass   /sˈaʊər græs/   Listen
Sour grass

noun
1.
Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine.  Synonyms: dock, sorrel.






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"Sour grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Seine along which he coasted, bending to the oar. Then Brittany with its beaches, where high waves rolled in beneath low and dreary skies, then Auvergne, with its scattered huts amid the sour grass, beneath rocks of basalt; and, finally, Corsica, Italy, Sicily, not with artistic enthusiasm, but simply to enjoy the delight of grand, pure outlines. Africa, the country of Salammb, the desert, finally call him, and he breathes those distant odors ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... easterly breeze too. You can imagine the blaze! We hadn't the faintest chance. Poor, old Iles lost his head completely, and sat down with his feet in a dry ditch and wept. There must be over two hundred acres of it. It's a dreadful eyesore, perfectly barren and useless, but for a little sour grass even a gipsy's donkey has to be hard up before he cares to eat!"—Miss St. Quentin shifted her position with a certain impatience. "I can't bear to see the land doing no work," ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet



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