MEADOW FOXTAIL

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Meaning:

Stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America

Synonyms:

Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("meadow foxtail" is a kind of...):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

Holonyms ("meadow foxtail" is a member of...):

Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus (annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds)

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