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CYNODON

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

1. creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa

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

• CYNODON (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cynodon; genus Cynodon

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Cynodon"):

Bahama grass; Bermuda grass; Cynodon dactylon; devil grass; doob; kweek; scutch grass; star grass (trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India)

Cynodon plectostachyum; giant star grass (perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay)

Holonyms ("Cynodon" 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)

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