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FEATHERTOP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variety of reed grass
Synonyms:
Calamagrostis acutiflora; feather reed grass; feathertop
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("feathertop" is a kind of...):
reed grass (any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
Synonyms:
feathertop; feathertop grass; Pennistum villosum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("feathertop" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("feathertop" is a member of...):
genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)
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