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CURLY GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curly grass mean? 

CURLY GRASS (noun)
  The noun CURLY GRASS has 1 sense:

1. rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tuftsplay

  Familiarity information: CURLY GRASS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CURLY GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

curly grass; curly grass fern; Schizaea pusilla

Hypernyms ("curly grass" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("curly grass" is a member of...):

genus Schizaea; Schizaea (type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics; small leptosporangiate ferns: curly grass fern)


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