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noun
Any of several grasses or grass-like plants:
Cynodon and Chloris spp., grasses in the subtribe Eleusininae of the Poaceae, especially Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several grasses or grass-like plants:
Aletris spp., flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several grasses or grass-like plants:
Callitriche spp., flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of several grasses or grass-like plants:
Hypoxis spp., flowering plants belonging to the family Hypoxidaceae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: windmill grass, creeping windmill grass, Chloris truncata
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Broader terms: finger grass
noun
trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, kweek, doob, scutch grass, Cynodon dactylon
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Broader terms: grass
noun
any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cormous plant
Narrower terms: American star grass, Hypoxis hirsuta
noun
any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: colicroot, colic root, crow corn, unicorn root
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Broader terms: liliaceous plant
Narrower terms: ague root, ague grass, Aletris farinosa, yellow colicroot, Aletris aurea
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