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CHLORIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Chloris mean?
• CHLORIS (noun)
The noun CHLORIS has 1 sense:
1. tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass
Familiarity information: CHLORIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chloris; genus Chloris
Hypernyms ("Chloris" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Holonyms ("Chloris" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
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