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    GENUS AGROSTIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)play

    Synonyms:

    Agrostis; genus Agrostis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    plant genus (a genus of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Agrostis"):

    bent; bent-grass; bent grass (grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens)

    Holonyms ("genus Agrostis" 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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