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GENUS ARUNDO

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Meaning:

Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds

Synonyms:

Arundo; genus Arundo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Arundo" 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 Arundo"):

Arundo donax; giant reed (large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles)

Holonyms ("genus Arundo" 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)

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