CORTADERIA SELLOANA

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Meaning:

Tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps

Synonyms:

Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass

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Hypernyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a member of...):

Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia (tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass)

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