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    SPOROBOLUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)play

    Synonyms:

    genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Sporobolus" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "Sporobolus"):

    drop-seed; dropseed (a grass of the genus Sporobolus)

    blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)

    rush-grass; rush grass (grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles)

    Holonyms ("Sporobolus" 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)

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