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HOLCUS LANATUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Holcus lanatus mean?
• HOLCUS LANATUS (noun)
The noun HOLCUS LANATUS has 1 sense:
1. tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage
Familiarity information: HOLCUS LANATUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall European perennial grass having a velvety stem; naturalized in United States and used for forage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Holcus lanatus; velvet grass; Yorkshire fog
Hypernyms ("Holcus lanatus" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
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