POVERTY GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

Synonyms:

beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass

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Nouns denoting plants

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

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

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

genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)

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