CORTADERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cortaderia mean? 

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

1. tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORTADERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia

Hypernyms ("Cortaderia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Cortaderia"):

Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass (tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps)

Holonyms ("Cortaderia" 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)