timothy

Meaning

Noun

• Phleum pratense, timothy-grass, native to Europe, but introduced widely and naturalized in US.
• Phleum alpinum (species), mountain timothy, native to North America.
• Other species of genus Phleum.

Related

Similar words

• catstail
• timothy-grass, Timothy-grass
• timothy grass, Timothy grass

Origin

• Named after Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.