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LYME GRASS

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Meaning:

A grass of the genus Elymus

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Nouns denoting plants

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

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

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

Elymus condensatus; giant ryegrass; Leymus condensatus (stout perennial grass of western North America)

Elymus arenarius; European dune grass; Leymus arenaria; sea lyme grass (a dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder)

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

Elymus; genus Elymus (tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye))

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