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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 Statesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW-EYED GRASS (noun)


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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