BOUTELOUA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bouteloua mean? 

• BOUTELOUA (noun)
  The noun BOUTELOUA has 1 sense:

1. forage grasses

  Familiarity information: BOUTELOUA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUTELOUA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forage grasses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Bouteloua"):

grama; grama grass; gramma; gramma grass (pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America)

Holonyms ("Bouteloua" 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)