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GENUS CORTADERIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass
Synonyms:
Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cortaderia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cortaderia"):
Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass (tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps)
Holonyms ("genus Cortaderia" 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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