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REED GRASS

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Meaning:

Any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("reed grass" 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 "reed grass"):

Calamagrostis acutiflora; feather reed grass; feathertop (a variety of reed grass)

Australian reed grass; Calamagrostic quadriseta (tall Australian reedlike grass sometimes used for hay)

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

Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis (reed grass)

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