FOUNTAIN GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia

Synonyms:

fountain grass; Pennisetum ruppelii; Pennisetum setaceum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fountain grass" is a kind of...):

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

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

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

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