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LOVE GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does love grass mean? 

LOVE GRASS (noun)
  The noun LOVE GRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosionplay

  Familiarity information: LOVE GRASS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOVE GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various grasses of the genus Eragrostis; specially useful for forage and for the prevention of erosion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bay grass; love grass

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

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "love grass"):

Eragrostic abyssinica; Eragrostis tef; teff; teff grass (an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flour of good quality) as well as for forage and hay)

African love grass; Eragrostis curvula; weeping love grass (perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems; introduced into United States especially for erosion control)

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

Eragrostis; genus Eragrostis (annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics)


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