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GENUS ANDROPOGON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions
Synonyms:
Andropogon; genus Andropogon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Andropogon" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Andropogon"):
broom grass (any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making)
Holonyms ("genus Andropogon" 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)
