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SCUTCH GRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
Synonyms:
Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scutch grass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("scutch grass" is a member of...):
Cynodon; genus Cynodon (creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa)