1. Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn
   "wire grass provided stunning fall colour in the prairie restoration project";
   - broom beard grass, prairie grass, Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium
    
2. Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
   "wire grass quickly colonized the disturbed soil";
   - yardgrass, yard grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica

Derived forms: wire grasses

Type of: broom grass, millet

Part of: Eleusine, genus Eleusine

Encyclopedia: Wire grass