GIANT REED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant reed mean? 

• GIANT REED (noun)
  The noun GIANT REED has 1 sense:

1. large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles

  Familiarity information: GIANT REED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT REED (noun)

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Meaning:

Large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arundo donax; giant reed

Hypernyms ("giant reed" is a kind of...):

reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)

Holonyms ("giant reed" is a member of...):

Arundo; genus Arundo (any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds)