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PENNY GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penny grass mean? 

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

1. foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North Americaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PENNY GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fanweed; field pennycress; French weed; mithridate mustard; penny grass; stinkweed; Thlaspi arvense

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

pennycress (any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi)

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

genus Thlaspi; Thlaspi (herbs of temperate regions: pennycress)


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