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BRISTLE GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bristle grass mean?
• BRISTLE GRASS (noun)
The noun BRISTLE GRASS has 1 sense:
1. grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
Familiarity information: BRISTLE GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bristle grass; bristlegrass
Hypernyms ("bristle grass" is a kind of...):
foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)
Holonyms ("bristle grass" is a member of...):
genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)
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