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    DROPSEED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A grass of the genus Sporobolusplay

    Synonyms:

    drop-seed; dropseed

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dropseed"):

    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)

    sand dropseed; Sporobolus cryptandrus (erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America)

    Holonyms ("dropseed" is a member of...):

    genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))

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