ELEUSINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eleusine mean? 

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

1. annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEUSINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleusine; genus Eleusine

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Eleusine"):

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)

African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi (East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient)

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

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)