sweetgrass
noun
sweetgrass is a noun meaning “mannagrass, in genus Glyceria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-W-E-E-T-G-R-A-S-S, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sweetgrass is sweetgrasses.
What does sweetgrass mean?
noun
- 1
mannagrass, in genus Glyceria
- 2
Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America
- 3
Muhlenbergia filipes, a grass native to the southeastern United States
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sweetgrass
- sweetgrasses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sweetgrass?
Sweetgrass appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does sweetgrass come from?
From sweet + grass.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).