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SQUAW GRASS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Plant of western North America having woody rhizomes and tufts of stiff grasslike basal leaves and spikes of creamy white flowers
Synonyms:
bear grass; squaw grass; Xerophyllum tenax
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("squaw grass" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Holonyms ("squaw grass" is a member of...):
genus Xerophyllum; Xerophyllum (small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)
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