sweet grass in English

noun
1
any of a number of grasses that possess a sweet flavor, making them attractive to livestock, or a sweet smell, resulting in their former use as herbs for strewing or burning.
Do get ‘smudged’ by an elder when he offers to purify you with sweetgrass , tobacco, sage and cedar.

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1. Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass book

2. Where Richard Rhodes's Farm ( LJ 1/90) nails down the reality of agricultural life, Paulsen's Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass lets the reader dream of simpler, kinder times

3. Aboriginality follows an urban youth as he heads down the mystical Red Road, where the sweet grass grows, to re-connect and be inspired by both new …

4. Sweet woodruff, meadowsweet, sweet grass and sweet-clover in particular are named for their sweet (i.e., pleasant) smell, which in turn is related to their high coumarin content.

5. Many times I have sat on my grandmothers' porch and watched the deer come out of the woods to graze on the sweet grass of the fields surrounding my grandmothers' house.

6. Aboriginality follows an urban youth as he heads down the mystical Red Road, where the sweet grass grows, to re-connect and be inspired by both new and traditional elements of First Nations culture

7. Since then I have read Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass at least three times, the opening at least ten, and gifted it to everyone I knew who had a connection to farming in the Northern Midwest