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DOOB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does doob mean?
• DOOB (noun)
The noun DOOB has 1 sense:
1. trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
Familiarity information: DOOB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass
Hypernyms ("doob" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("doob" is a member of...):
Cynodon; genus Cynodon (creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa)
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