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MEADOWGRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture
Synonyms:
meadow grass; meadowgrass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("meadowgrass" 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 "meadowgrass"):
foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)
manna grass; sweet grass (any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor)
Agrostis alba; Poa nemoralis; wood meadowgrass (slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia)
Holonyms ("meadowgrass" 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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