ELYMUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Elymus mean? 

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

1. tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELYMUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Elymus; genus Elymus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Elymus"):

lyme grass (a grass of the genus Elymus)

wild rye (any of several grasses of the genus Elymus)

Holonyms ("Elymus" 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)