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RAVENNA GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ravenna grass mean? 

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

1. grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grassplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RAVENNA GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Erianthus ravennae; Ravenna grass; wool grass

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

plume grass (a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes)

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

Erianthus; genus Erianthus (genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs)


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