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MOUNTAIN RICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain rice mean?
• MOUNTAIN RICE (noun)
The noun MOUNTAIN RICE has 1 sense:
1. valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN RICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass
Hypernyms ("mountain rice" is a kind of...):
rice grass; ricegrass (any grass of the genus Oryzopsis)
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