YARD GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yard grass mean? 

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

1. coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YARD GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass

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

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

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

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)