GENUS SETARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Setaria mean? 

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

1. annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SETARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Setaria; Setaria

Hypernyms ("genus Setaria" 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 Setaria"):

bristle grass; bristlegrass (grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet)

foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica (coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States)

Holonyms ("genus Setaria" 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)