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YELLOW-EYED GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow-eyed grass mean?
• YELLOW-EYED GRASS (noun)
The noun YELLOW-EYED GRASS has 1 sense:
1. any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States
Familiarity information: YELLOW-EYED GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("yellow-eyed grass" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow-eyed grass"):
tall yellow-eye; Xyris operculata (of Australia)
Holonyms ("yellow-eyed grass" is a member of...):
genus Xyris; Xyris (chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers)
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