ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alopecurus pratensis mean? 

• ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS (noun)
  The noun ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS has 1 sense:

1. stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America

  Familiarity information: ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail

Hypernyms ("Alopecurus pratensis" is a kind of...):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

Holonyms ("Alopecurus pratensis" is a member of...):

Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus (annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds)