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MEADOWGRASS

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Meaning:

Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture

Synonyms:

meadow grass; meadowgrass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("meadowgrass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meadowgrass"):

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

manna grass; sweet grass (any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor)

Agrostis alba; Poa nemoralis; wood meadowgrass (slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia)

Holonyms ("meadowgrass" 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)

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