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BLUE GRASS

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Meaning:

Any of various grasses of the genus Poa

Synonyms:

blue grass; bluegrass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue 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 "blue grass"):

June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis (valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures)

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

genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)

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