YELLOW-EYED GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("yellow-eyed grass" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow-eyed grass"):

tall yellow-eye; Xyris operculata (of Australia)

Holonyms ("yellow-eyed grass" is a member of...):

genus Xyris; Xyris (chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers)

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