The name of a group of islands in the N. Atlantic; hence a variety of cigar, or rolled tobacco. Bermuda grass, name in U. S. of Cynodon Dactylon, a kind of grass growing on a sandy seashore.
c. 1640. [Shirley], Capt. Underwit, IV. ii. in O. Pl. (1883), II. 381. Will you take Tobacco in the Roll? here is a whole ship-lading of Bermudas.
1879. New Orleans Paper. An inquiry comes to us about Bermuda-grass. Ibid., Bermuda is emphatically a Southern grass … adapted to a hot climate.
