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RICEGRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

Synonyms:

rice grass; ricegrass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

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

Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass (valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico)

Oryzopsis miliacea; smilo; smilo grass (perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America)

Holonyms ("ricegrass" is a member of...):

genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)

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