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GENUS ALOPECURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Alopecurus mean? 

GENUS ALOPECURUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS ALOPECURUS has 1 sense:

1. annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weedsplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS ALOPECURUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS ALOPECURUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus

Hypernyms ("genus Alopecurus" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Alopecurus"):

Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail (stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America)

Holonyms ("genus Alopecurus" 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)


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