ALOPECURUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alopecurus mean? 

• ALOPECURUS (noun)
  The noun ALOPECURUS has 1 sense:

1. annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds

  Familiarity information: ALOPECURUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALOPECURUS (noun)

Meaning:

Annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus

Hypernyms ("Alopecurus" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Alopecurus"):

Alopecurus pratensis; meadow foxtail (stout erect perennial grass of northern parts of Old World having silky flowering spikes; widely cultivated for pasture and hay; naturalized in North America)

Holonyms ("Alopecurus" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)