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n. - Plants for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens.

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  • Coincidentally or not, the club switched to bent-grass greens that year and regained the top 10 for 1983.
  • Now and then a hare will start among the bent-grass, while aloft the falcon rests poised on her mighty wing.
  • She stood for several minutes peering out into the darkness and listening; no sound was to be heard but the lapping of the waves, and the sigh of the wind through the...
  • Autumn hues gild the trees, the wide pastures are of brilliant green, and on the rough land the reddening bent-grass glows richly in the declining sun, which throws its...
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