BARNYARD GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barnyard grass mean? 

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

1. a coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARNYARD GRASS (noun)

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Meaning:

A coarse annual panic grass; a cosmopolitan weed; occasionally used for hay or grazing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

barn grass; barn millet; barnyard grass; Echinochloa crusgalli

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

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

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

Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)