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BENT GRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
Synonyms:
bent; bent-grass; bent grass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bent 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 "bent grass"):
Agrostis canina; brown bent; dog bent; Rhode Island bent; velvet bent; velvet bent grass (common grass with slender stems and narrow leaves)
Agrostis nebulosa; cloud grass (Spanish grass with light feathery panicles grown for dried bouquets)
Agrostis palustris; creeping bent; creeping bentgrass (common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners)
Holonyms ("bent grass" is a member of...):
Agrostis; genus Agrostis (annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland))
