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LYME GRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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Hypernyms ("lyme grass" 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 "lyme grass"):
Elymus condensatus; giant ryegrass; Leymus condensatus (stout perennial grass of western North America)
Elymus arenarius; European dune grass; Leymus arenaria; sea lyme grass (a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder)
Holonyms ("lyme grass" is a member of...):
Elymus; genus Elymus (tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye))