GENUS SACCHARUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Saccharum mean? 

• GENUS SACCHARUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS SACCHARUM has 1 sense:

1. tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SACCHARUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Saccharum; Saccharum

Hypernyms ("genus Saccharum" 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 Saccharum"):

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)

munj; munja; Saccharum bengalense; Saccharum munja (tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets)

Holonyms ("genus Saccharum" 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)