CRABGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crabgrass mean? 

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

1. grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRABGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

crab grass; crabgrass; finger grass

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

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

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

crowfoot grass; Dactyloctenium aegypticum; Egyptian grass (a creeping grass with spikes like fingers)

Digitaria ischaemum; smooth crabgrass (a weed)

Digitaria sanguinalis; hairy finger grass; large crabgrass (a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States)

Holonyms ("crabgrass" is a member of...):

Digitaria; genus Digitaria (crab grass; finger grass)