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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 windmillplay

  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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