GENUS AGROSTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Agrostis mean? 

• GENUS AGROSTIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS AGROSTIS has 1 sense:

1. annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)

  Familiarity information: GENUS AGROSTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS AGROSTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Agrostis; genus Agrostis

Hypernyms ("genus Agrostis" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Agrostis"):

bent; bent-grass; bent grass (grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens)

Holonyms ("genus Agrostis" 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)