Definition of "guinea-grass" [guinea-grass]

• The Panicum maximum, a coarse tropical grass of Africa, introduced into many warm countries and extensively cultivated in the West Indies for pasturage. It is very nutritious. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was a rich, deep soil, covered with a rank tropic growth, the guinea-grass being higher than the head of a man on horseback."
• "Bullocks especially, if fed with the fruit of this tree, guinea-grass, and _Batatilla_ (_Ipomoea brachypoda_, Benth.), soon get fat."
• "This was not so much because the other darkey had omitted cutting the guinea-grass, which, of course, the horses would not now require until we returned from town, as from the circumstance of Pompey having had the chance of exhibiting his prowess in respect of the iguana."