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ERAGROSTIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics
Synonyms:
Eragrostis; genus Eragrostis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Eragrostis" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Eragrostis"):
bay grass; love grass (any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion)
Holonyms ("Eragrostis" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
