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CORTADERIA SELLOANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cortaderia selloana mean?
• CORTADERIA SELLOANA (noun)
The noun CORTADERIA SELLOANA has 1 sense:
1. tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps
Familiarity information: CORTADERIA SELLOANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cortaderia selloana; pampas grass
Hypernyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("Cortaderia selloana" is a member of...):
Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia (tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass)
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