GIANT REED

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles

Synonyms:

Arundo donax; giant reed

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("giant reed" is a kind of...):

reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)

Holonyms ("giant reed" is a member of...):

Arundo; genus Arundo (any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds)

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