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ALOPECURUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds
Synonyms:
Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Alopecurus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Alopecurus"):
Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail (stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America)
Holonyms ("Alopecurus" 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)
