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ELEUSINE INDICA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
Synonyms:
Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Eleusine indica" is a kind of...):
millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)
Holonyms ("Eleusine indica" is a member of...):
Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)