WIRE GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wire grass mean? 

• WIRE GRASS (noun)
  The noun WIRE GRASS has 2 senses:

1. handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

2. coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

  Familiarity information: WIRE GRASS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIRE GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Andropogon scoparius; broom beard grass; prairie grass; Schizachyrium scoparium; wire grass

Hypernyms ("wire grass" is a kind of...):

broom grass (any of several grasses of the genus Andropogon; used in broom making)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass

Hypernyms ("wire grass" is a kind of...):

millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)

Holonyms ("wire grass" is a member of...):

Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)