SWEET GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet grass mean? 

• SWEET GRASS (noun)
  The noun SWEET GRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor

  Familiarity information: SWEET GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEET GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

manna grass; sweet grass

Hypernyms ("sweet grass" is a kind of...):

meadow grass; meadowgrass (any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture)

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

Glyceria grandis; reed meadow grass (a pasture grass of moist places throughout North America)

Holonyms ("sweet grass" is a member of...):

genus Glyceria; Glyceria (manna grass)

 Context examples 

The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)