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    GENUS SETARIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrassesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Setaria; Setaria

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Setaria" 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 Setaria"):

    bristle grass; bristlegrass (grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet)

    foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica (coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States)

    Holonyms ("genus Setaria" 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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