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ARUNDO DONAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arundo donax mean? 

ARUNDO DONAX (noun)
  The noun ARUNDO DONAX has 1 sense:

1. large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery paniclesplay

  Familiarity information: ARUNDO DONAX used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARUNDO DONAX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arundo donax; giant reed

Hypernyms ("Arundo donax" is a kind of...):

reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)

Holonyms ("Arundo donax" is a member of...):

Arundo; genus Arundo (any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds)


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