MEADOWGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meadowgrass mean? 

• MEADOWGRASS (noun)
  The noun MEADOWGRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture

  Familiarity information: MEADOWGRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEADOWGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

meadow grass; meadowgrass

Hypernyms ("meadowgrass" 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 "meadowgrass"):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

manna grass; sweet grass (any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor)

Agrostis alba; Poa nemoralis; wood meadowgrass (slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia)

Holonyms ("meadowgrass" 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)