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YARD GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yard grass mean?
• YARD GRASS (noun)
The noun YARD GRASS has 1 sense:
1. coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere
Familiarity information: YARD GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("yard 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 ("yard grass" is a member of...):
Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)
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