RICEGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ricegrass mean? 

• RICEGRASS (noun)
  The noun RICEGRASS has 1 sense:

1. any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

  Familiarity information: RICEGRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICEGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rice grass; ricegrass

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

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ricegrass"):

Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass (valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico)

Oryzopsis miliacea; smilo; smilo grass (perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America)

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

genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)