BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does billion-dollar grass mean? 

• BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS (noun)
  The noun BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS has 1 sense:

1. coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States

  Familiarity information: BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILLION-DOLLAR GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet

Hypernyms ("billion-dollar grass" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("billion-dollar grass" is a member of...):

Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)