SILK GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silk grass mean? 

• SILK GRASS (noun)
  The noun SILK GRASS has 1 sense:

1. valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILK GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass

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

rice grass; ricegrass (any grass of the genus Oryzopsis)