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    RICE GRASS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any grass of the genus Oryzopsisplay

    Synonyms:

    rice grass; ricegrass

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

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

    Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass (valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico)

    Oryzopsis miliacea; smilo; smilo grass (perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America)

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

    genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)

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