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BENT-GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

Synonyms:

bent; bent-grass; bent grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bent-grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bent-grass"):

Agrostis canina; brown bent; dog bent; Rhode Island bent; velvet bent; velvet bent grass (common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves)

Agrostis nebulosa; cloud grass (Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets)

Agrostis palustris; creeping bent; creeping bentgrass (common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners)

Holonyms ("bent-grass" is a member of...):

Agrostis; genus Agrostis (annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland))

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