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RICE GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rice grass mean? 

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

1. any grass of the genus Oryzopsisplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


RICE GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rice grass; ricegrass

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

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

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

Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass (valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico)

Oryzopsis miliacea; smilo; smilo grass (perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America)

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

genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)


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