FEATHERTOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feathertop mean? 

• FEATHERTOP (noun)
  The noun FEATHERTOP has 2 senses:

1. northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles

2. a variety of reed grass

  Familiarity information: FEATHERTOP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEATHERTOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

feathertop; feathertop grass; Pennistum villosum

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

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

Holonyms ("feathertop" is a member of...):

genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A variety of reed grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calamagrostis acutiflora; feather reed grass; feathertop

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

reed grass (any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere)