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DROPSEED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grass of the genus Sporobolus
Synonyms:
drop-seed; dropseed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dropseed" 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 "dropseed"):
blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)
sand dropseed; Sporobolus cryptandrus (erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America)
Holonyms ("dropseed" is a member of...):
genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))