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REED GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reed grass mean? 

REED GRASS (noun)
  The noun REED GRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphereplay

  Familiarity information: REED GRASS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REED GRASS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("reed grass" is a kind of...):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reed grass"):

Calamagrostis acutiflora; feather reed grass; feathertop (a variety of reed grass)

Australian reed grass; Calamagrostic quadriseta (tall Australian reedlike grass sometimes used for hay)

Holonyms ("reed grass" is a member of...):

Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis (reed grass)


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