GENUS CALAMAGROSTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calamagrostis mean? 

• GENUS CALAMAGROSTIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CALAMAGROSTIS has 1 sense:

1. reed grass

  Familiarity information: GENUS CALAMAGROSTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALAMAGROSTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reed grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis

Hypernyms ("genus Calamagrostis" is a kind of...):

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

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)

Meronyms (members of "genus Calamagrostis"):

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)