PLUME GRASS

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Meaning:

A reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plume 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 "plume grass"):

Erianthus ravennae; Ravenna grass; wool grass (grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass)

Holonyms ("plume grass" is a member of...):

Erianthus; genus Erianthus (genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs)