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    GENUS AGROPYRON

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grassplay

    Synonyms:

    Agropyron; genus Agropyron

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Agropyron" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Agropyron"):

    wheat-grass; wheatgrass (a grass of the genus Agropyron)

    Holonyms ("genus Agropyron" 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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