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SETARIA GLAUCA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Setaria glauca mean? 

SETARIA GLAUCA (noun)
  The noun SETARIA GLAUCA has 1 sense:

1. common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areasplay

  Familiarity information: SETARIA GLAUCA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SETARIA GLAUCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

glaucous bristlegrass; Setaria glauca; yellow bristle grass; yellow bristlegrass; yellow foxtail

Hypernyms ("Setaria glauca" is a kind of...):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)


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