SACCHARUM BENGALENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saccharum bengalense mean? 

• SACCHARUM BENGALENSE (noun)
  The noun SACCHARUM BENGALENSE has 1 sense:

1. tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets

  Familiarity information: SACCHARUM BENGALENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACCHARUM BENGALENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

munj; munja; Saccharum bengalense; Saccharum munja

Hypernyms ("Saccharum bengalense" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("Saccharum bengalense" is a member of...):

genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)