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SACCHARUM BENGALENSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Saccharum bengalense mean?
• SACCHARUM BENGALENSE (noun)
The noun SACCHARUM BENGALENSE has 1 sense:
1. tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets
Familiarity information: SACCHARUM BENGALENSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
munj; munja; Saccharum bengalense; Saccharum munja
Hypernyms ("Saccharum bengalense" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("Saccharum bengalense" is a member of...):
genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)
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