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EVERGREEN GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evergreen grass mean? 

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

1. coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forageplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EVERGREEN GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass

Hypernyms ("evergreen 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 ("evergreen grass" is a member of...):

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)


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