DROPSEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dropseed mean? 

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

1. a grass of the genus Sporobolus

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROPSEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grass of the genus Sporobolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

drop-seed; dropseed

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

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dropseed"):

blackseed; carpet grass; smut grass; Sporobolus poiretii (grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus)

sand dropseed; Sporobolus cryptandrus (erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America)

Holonyms ("dropseed" is a member of...):

genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))