PORCUPINE GRASS

Definition: PORCUPINE GRASS

PORCUPINE GRASS

1. (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Anagrams: PORCUPINE GRASS

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	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: superorganic.
	-3 letters: supercargos, superposing, surrogacies, uppercasing.
	-4 letters: coinsurers, cousinages, oppressing, organisers, paregorics, percussing, percussion, persuasion, porcupines, precarious, prescoring, pressuring, processing, prospering, rearousing, reassuring, recrossing, recursions, saprogenic, scarpering, scroungers, scroungier, scuppering, supercargo, supersonic, surceasing.
	-5 letters: apprisers, arsenious, aruspices, aspersing, aspersion, caponiers, caressing, carousers, carousing, coinsurer, coinsures, conspires, coppering, cosigners, coursings, cousinage, croupiers, curarines, escarping, espousing.
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