BRISTLEGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bristlegrass mean? 

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

1. grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRISTLEGRASS (noun)

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 ("bristlegrass" is a kind of...):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

Holonyms ("bristlegrass" is a member of...):

genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)