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ELYMUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye)
Synonyms:
Elymus; genus Elymus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Elymus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Elymus"):
lyme grass (a grass of the genus Elymus)
wild rye (any of several grasses of the genus Elymus)
Holonyms ("Elymus" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
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