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GENUS AGROSTIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)
Synonyms:
Agrostis; genus Agrostis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Agrostis" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Agrostis"):
bent; bent-grass; bent grass (grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens)
Holonyms ("genus Agrostis" 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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