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GENUS ELEUSINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands
Synonyms:
Eleusine; genus Eleusine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Eleusine" 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 Eleusine"):
Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)
African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi (East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient)
Holonyms ("genus Eleusine" 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)
