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DROPSEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A grass of the genus Sporobolusplay

Synonyms:

drop-seed; dropseed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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))

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