ECHINOCHLOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Echinochloa mean? 

• ECHINOCHLOA (noun)
  The noun ECHINOCHLOA has 1 sense:

1. annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHINOCHLOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Echinochloa"):

barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli (a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing)

billion-dollar grass; Echinochloa frumentacea; Japanese barnyard millet; Japanese millet; sanwa millet (coarse annual grass cultivated in Japan and southeastern Asia for its edible seeds and for forage; important wildlife food in United States)

Holonyms ("Echinochloa" 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)