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GENUS SACCHARUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane
Synonyms:
genus Saccharum; Saccharum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Saccharum" 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 Saccharum"):
Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)
munj; munja; Saccharum bengalense; Saccharum munja (tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets)
Holonyms ("genus Saccharum" 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)
