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CORTADERIA SELLOANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cortaderia selloana mean? 

CORTADERIA SELLOANA (noun)
  The noun CORTADERIA SELLOANA has 1 sense:

1. tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumpsplay

  Familiarity information: CORTADERIA SELLOANA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORTADERIA SELLOANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass

Hypernyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a member of...):

Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia (tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass)


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