GOOSE GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goose grass mean? 

• GOOSE GRASS (noun)
  The noun GOOSE GRASS has 4 senses:

1. annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia

2. low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia

3. annual weedy grass used for hay

4. coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

  Familiarity information: GOOSE GRASS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOSE GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

catchweed; cleavers; clivers; Galium aparine; goose grass; spring cleavers

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing perennial having leaves silvery beneath; northern United States; Europe; Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

goose-tansy; goose grass; Potentilla anserina; silverweed

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

cinquefoil; five-finger (any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Annual weedy grass used for hay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

goose grass; Panicum Texanum; Texas millet

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

panic grass (any grass of the genus Panicum; grown for grain and fodder)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass

Hypernyms ("goose grass" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("goose grass" is a member of...):

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)