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TALL MEADOW GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tall meadow grass mean?
• TALL MEADOW GRASS (noun)
The noun TALL MEADOW GRASS has 1 sense:
1. coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
Familiarity information: TALL MEADOW GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse perennial Eurasian grass resembling oat; found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Arrhenatherum elatius; evergreen grass; false oat; French rye; tall meadow grass; tall oat grass
Hypernyms ("tall meadow grass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Holonyms ("tall meadow grass" is a member of...):
Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)
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