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GOOSE GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

Synonyms:

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("goose grass" is a member of...):

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Annual weedy grass used for hay

Synonyms:

goose grass; Panicum Texanum; Texas millet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

panic grass (any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia

Synonyms:

goose-tansy; goose grass; Potentilla anserina; silverweed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

cinquefoil; five-finger (any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia

Synonyms:

catchweed; cleavers; clivers; Galium aparine; goose grass; spring cleavers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)

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