TALL OAT GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tall oat grass mean? 

• TALL OAT GRASS (noun)
  The noun TALL OAT GRASS has 1 sense:

1. coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TALL OAT GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass

Hypernyms ("tall oat grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Holonyms ("tall oat grass" is a member of...):

Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)