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    HUNGARIAN GRASS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United Statesplay

    Synonyms:

    foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Hungarian grass" is a kind of...):

    foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hungarian grass"):

    Setaria italica rubrofructa; Siberian millet (millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes)

    German millet; golden wonder millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa (millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes)

    Holonyms ("Hungarian grass" is a member of...):

    genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)

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