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CALAMAGROSTIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Calamagrostis mean?
• CALAMAGROSTIS (noun)
The noun CALAMAGROSTIS has 1 sense:
1. reed grass
Familiarity information: CALAMAGROSTIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reed grass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis
Hypernyms ("Calamagrostis" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
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)
Meronyms (members of "Calamagrostis"):
reed grass (any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere)
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