WOOL GRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wool grass mean? 

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

1. sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets

2. grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOL GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Scirpus cyperinus; wool grass

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

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

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

genus Scirpus; Scirpus (rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grass often cultivated for its long white-ribbed leaves and large plumes resembling those of pampas grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Erianthus ravennae; Ravenna grass; wool grass

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

plume grass (a reedlike grass of the genus Erianthus having large plumes)

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

Erianthus; genus Erianthus (genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs)