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GENUS ECHINOCHLOA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions
Synonyms:
Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Echinochloa" 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 Echinochloa"):
barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli (a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing)
billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet (coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States)
Holonyms ("genus Echinochloa" 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)
