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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 hemisphere
Familiarity information: REED GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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