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BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States
Synonyms:
billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("billion-dollar grass" is a kind of...):
millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)
Holonyms ("billion-dollar grass" is a member of...):
Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)
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