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ARRHENATHERUM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Oat grass

Synonyms:

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Arrhenatherum"):

Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass (coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage)

Holonyms ("Arrhenatherum" 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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