GENUS POA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Poa mean? 

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

1. chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS POA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Poa; Poa

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Poa"):

blue grass; bluegrass (any of various grasses of the genus Poa)

June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis (valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures)

Agrostis alba; Poa nemoralis; wood meadowgrass (slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia)

Holonyms ("genus Poa" 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)