GENUS DIGITARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Digitaria mean? 

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

1. crab grass; finger grass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS DIGITARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crab grass; finger grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Digitaria; genus Digitaria

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Digitaria"):

crab grass; crabgrass; finger grass (grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns)

Holonyms ("genus Digitaria" 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)