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SPOROBOLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sporobolus mean? 

SPOROBOLUS (noun)
  The noun SPOROBOLUS has 1 sense:

1. cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)play

  Familiarity information: SPOROBOLUS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPOROBOLUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus

Hypernyms ("Sporobolus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Sporobolus"):

drop-seed; dropseed (a grass of the genus Sporobolus)

blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)

rush-grass; rush grass (grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles)

Holonyms ("Sporobolus" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)


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