ERIANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Erianthus mean? 

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

1. genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERIANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Erianthus; genus Erianthus

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Erianthus"):

plume grass (a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes)

Erianthus ravennae; Ravenna grass; wool grass (grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass)

Holonyms ("Erianthus" 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)