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STAR GRASS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill

Synonyms:

Chloris truncata; creeping windmill grass; star grass; windmill grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

finger grass (any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India

Synonyms:

Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

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

Cynodon; genus Cynodon (creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cormous plant (plant growing from a corm)

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

American star grass; Hypoxis hirsuta (perennial star grass of North America)

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

genus Hypoxis; Hypoxis (small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic

Synonyms:

colic root; colicroot; crow corn; star grass; unicorn root

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

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

ague grass; ague root; Aletris farinosa (colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers; southeastern United States)

Aletris aurea; yellow colicroot (colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States)

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

Aletris; genus Aletris (small genus of bitter-rooted herbs of eastern North America and Asia; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)

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