FRENCH RYE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

Synonyms:

Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("French rye" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("French rye" is a member of...):

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)

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