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BAY GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion

Synonyms:

bay grass; love grass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bay 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 "bay grass"):

Eragrostic abyssinica; Eragrostis tef; teff; teff grass (an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay)

African love grass; Eragrostis curvula; weeping love grass (perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems; introduced into United States especially for erosion control)

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

Eragrostis; genus Eragrostis (annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics)

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