ERAGROSTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eragrostis mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERAGROSTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eragrostis; genus Eragrostis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Eragrostis"):

bay grass; love grass (any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion)

Holonyms ("Eragrostis" 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)