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FEATHERTOP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of reed grass

Synonyms:

Calamagrostis acutiflora; feather reed grass; feathertop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

reed grass (any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles

Synonyms:

feathertop; feathertop grass; Pennistum villosum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

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