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SILKGRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silkgrass mean?
• SILKGRASS (noun)
The noun SILKGRASS has 1 sense:
1. valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Familiarity information: SILKGRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Indian millet; mountain rice; Oryzopsis hymenoides; silk grass; silkgrass
Hypernyms ("silkgrass" is a kind of...):
rice grass; ricegrass (any grass of the genus Oryzopsis)
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