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    GENUS CYNODON

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africaplay

    Synonyms:

    Cynodon; genus Cynodon

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Cynodon" 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 Cynodon"):

    Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass (trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India)

    Cynodon plectostachyum; giant star grass (perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay)

    Holonyms ("genus Cynodon" 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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