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FEATHERTOP GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does feathertop grass mean?
• FEATHERTOP GRASS (noun)
The noun FEATHERTOP GRASS has 1 sense:
1. northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
Familiarity information: FEATHERTOP GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
feathertop; feathertop grass; Pennistum villosum
Hypernyms ("feathertop grass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("feathertop grass" is a member of...):
genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)
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