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goose-grass
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of several herbs supposedly eaten by geese, especially silverweed, Polygonum aviculare, and horsetail, Equisetum sp.
Quotations
1810
The snow prevented them [horses] from filling their bellies with that small goosegrass, which is the only thing for them in these swamps.
1888
I woke about midnight, and heard something splashing in the creek, but thinking it was only some of the ponies drinking, or crossing the water to another bank of goose-grass we had come through from the other side, I slept until morning.
1957
It had taken its way through goose grass and juniper and scrub pine and willow. . . .