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SCUTCH GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scutch grass mean? 

SCUTCH GRASS (noun)
  The noun SCUTCH GRASS has 1 sense:

1. trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and Indiaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SCUTCH GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass

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

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

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

Cynodon; genus Cynodon (creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa)


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