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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 panicles
Familiarity information: ARUNDO DONAX used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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