ˌmyülənˈbərjēə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Gotthilf H. E. Mühlenberg died 1815 American clergyman and botanist + New Latin -ia
: a genus of slender often wiry perennial American and Asiatic grasses with small spikelets and capillary awns of some importance in the western United States as forage