noun.
A perennial grass (Agrostis gigantea) with reddish spikelets, native to Eurasia and widely cultivated for forage.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A kind of bent-grass, Agrostis vulgaris (A. alba, var. vulgaris).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
noun.
A kind of grass (Agrostisvulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle.
noun.
Species of the genus Agrostis, the bentgrasses.
Word Usage
"Rhode Island Bent, known as redtop, is less exacting, and where it thrives to the exclusion of timothy, or is in evidence in grass lands, the inference is fairly safe that a test would show that the soil is sour."