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RAVENNA GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ravenna grass mean?
• RAVENNA GRASS (noun)
The noun RAVENNA GRASS has 1 sense:
1. grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass
Familiarity information: RAVENNA GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Erianthus ravennae; Ravenna grass; wool grass
Hypernyms ("Ravenna grass" is a kind of...):
plume grass (a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes)
Holonyms ("Ravenna grass" is a member of...):
Erianthus; genus Erianthus (genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs)
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