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rye·grass

or rye grass (rī′grăs′)

Any of several grasses of the genus Lolium, native to Eurasia and often used for forage or for stabilizing soil.

[Alteration of raygrass : ray, darnel (from Middle English rai, perhaps alteration of Old French ivraie, from Latin ēbriāca, from feminine of ēbriācus, drunk (from the plant's effects if ingested), from ēbrius; see inebriate) + grass.]

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rye•grass

(ˈraɪˌgræs, -ˌgrɑs)

n.

any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne, grown for forage in the U.S.

[1740–50]

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ryegrass - any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses

rye grass

grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

genus Lolium, Lolium - darnel; ryegrass

English ryegrass, Lolium perenne, perennial ryegrass - European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass

Italian rye, Italian ryegrass, Lolium multiflorum - European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure

bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare - weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

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In southern Brazil, annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam) has great importance in livestock systems.

Effect of herbage allowances on biomass flows in Italian ryegrass/ Efeito de ofertas de forragem sobre o fluxo de biomassa em azevem

Treatments were: natural cover (spontaneous native species vegetating in the growing area); ryegrass straw + millet cover (Lolium multiflorum, 35,500 kg of straw per [ha-.sup.1]) associated with millet straw (Pennisetum glaucum, 40,000 kg per [ha.sup.-1]); pine sawdust (Pinus elliottii var.

Soil cover management: initial development of pear trees hosui cultivar and its effects on soil and weeds/Manejo da cobertura do solo: desenvolvimento inicial de pereiras cv. Hosui e efeitos sobre o solo e plantas daninhas

The black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.) and ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) mixed with vetch (Vicia sativa L.) are species of good nutritional quality, with high digestibility and high content of degradable nitrogen (N), which can be lost and excreted via urine if it is not adequately supplied in the diet.

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In this report, the forage seed market is categorized into alfalfa, clover, ryegrass, chicory among others including lablab, fescue.

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However, in other cases, crops were more competitive that weeds, as observed for soybean in coexistence with red rice (Moraes et al., 2009), for wheat in interaction with ryegrass (Rigoli et al., 2008).

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Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is widely reported as a kind of pasture which is suitable for planting in heavy metal-contaminated soil [16-19].

Intercropping of Gramineous Pasture Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) and Leguminous Forage Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Increases the Resistance of Plants to Heavy Metals

Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), among grasses of temperate climate, is the most widely used in southern region of Brazil, since it allows adequate maintenance of forage in quantity and quality, in a period of low production of natural pasture.

Efficiency of the use of ryegrass by heifers in response to the receival of supplement/Eficiencia do uso de azevem por bezerras em resposta ao recebimento de suplemento

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