Bristle Grass

Setaria

Setaria is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The name is derived from the Latin word seta, meaning "bristle" or "hair", which refers to the bristly spikelets.

Bristle

A bristle is a stiff hair or feather, either on an animal, such as a pig, a plant, or on a tool such as a brush or broom.

Grass

Grass refers to various families of plants. The three major families of grasslike plants are true grasses (Poaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), and rushes (Juncaceae). Lawns and pasturelands are typically composed of true grasses, five of which cover 46% of the world's arable land: rice, wheat, maize, barley, and sugar cane.

bristle

Noun

1. A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
2. A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.

Verb

1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
2. To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out.

grass

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

Verb

1. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
2. To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.