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RYEGRASS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses

Synonyms:

rye grass; ryegrass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ryegrass" 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 "ryegrass"):

English ryegrass; Lolium perenne; perennial ryegrass (European perennial grass widely cultivated for pasture and hay and as a lawn grass)

Italian rye; Italian ryegrass; Lolium multiflorum (European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure)

bearded darnel; cheat; darnel; Lolium temulentum; tare (weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous)

Holonyms ("ryegrass" is a member of...):

genus Lolium; Lolium (darnel; ryegrass)

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