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SPOROBOLUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)
Synonyms:
genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sporobolus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Sporobolus"):
drop-seed; dropseed (a grass of the genus Sporobolus)
blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)
rush-grass; rush grass (grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles)
Holonyms ("Sporobolus" 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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