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SETARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses
Synonyms:
genus Setaria; Setaria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Setaria" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Setaria"):
bristle grass; bristlegrass (grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet)
foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica (coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States)
Holonyms ("Setaria" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
