AGROPYRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agropyron mean? 

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

1. perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGROPYRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agropyron; genus Agropyron

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Agropyron"):

wheat-grass; wheatgrass (a grass of the genus Agropyron)

Holonyms ("Agropyron" 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)