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POA PRATENSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Poa pratensis mean?
• POA PRATENSIS (noun)
The noun POA PRATENSIS has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: POA PRATENSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
June grass; Kentucky blue; Kentucky bluegrass; Kentucy blue grass; Poa pratensis
Hypernyms ("Poa pratensis" is a kind of...):
blue grass; bluegrass (any of various grasses of the genus Poa)
Holonyms ("Poa pratensis" is a member of...):
genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)
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