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SPOROBOLUS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)

Synonyms:

genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Sporobolus"):

drop-seed; dropseed (a grass of the genus Sporobolus)

blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)

rush-grass; rush grass (grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles)

Holonyms ("Sporobolus" 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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