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CREEPING WINDMILL GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does creeping windmill grass mean?
• CREEPING WINDMILL GRASS (noun)
The noun CREEPING WINDMILL GRASS has 1 sense:
1. perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
Familiarity information: CREEPING WINDMILL GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CREEPING WINDMILL GRASS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Chloris truncata; creeping windmill grass; star grass; windmill grass
Hypernyms ("creeping windmill grass" is a kind of...):
finger grass (any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils)
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