WHEAT-GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wheat-grass mean? 

• WHEAT-GRASS (noun)
  The noun WHEAT-GRASS has 1 sense:

1. a grass of the genus Agropyron

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEAT-GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grass of the genus Agropyron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

wheat-grass; wheatgrass

Hypernyms ("wheat-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 "wheat-grass"):

Agropyron cristatum; crested wheat grass; crested wheatgrass; fairway crested wheat grass (Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control)

Agropyron repens; couch grass; dog grass; quack grass; quackgrass; quick grass; witch grass; witchgrass (European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed)

Agropyron subsecundum; bearded wheatgrass (a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes)

Agropyron smithii; bluestem wheatgrass; western wheatgrass (valuable forage grass of western United States)

Agropyron intermedium; Elymus hispidus; intermediate wheatgrass (Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder)

Agropyron pauciflorum; Agropyron trachycaulum; Elymus trachycaulos; slender wheatgrass (North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop)

Holonyms ("wheat-grass" is a member of...):

Agropyron; genus Agropyron (perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass)