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GENUS CYNODON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa
Synonyms:
Cynodon; genus Cynodon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cynodon" 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 Cynodon"):
Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass (trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India)
Cynodon plectostachyum; giant star grass (perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay)
Holonyms ("genus Cynodon" 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)
