FINGER GRASS
Dictionary entry overview: What does finger grass mean?
• FINGER GRASS (noun)
The noun FINGER GRASS has 2 senses:
1. grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns
2. any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils
Familiarity information: FINGER GRASS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FINGER GRASS (noun)
Meaning:
Grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crab grass; crabgrass; finger grass
Hypernyms ("finger grass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finger grass"):
crowfoot grass; Dactyloctenium aegypticum; Egyptian grass (a creeping grass with spikes like fingers)
Digitaria ischaemum; smooth crabgrass (a weed)
Digitaria sanguinalis; hairy finger grass; large crabgrass (a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States)
Holonyms ("finger grass" is a member of...):
Digitaria; genus Digitaria (crab grass; finger grass)
Meaning:
Any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("finger grass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finger grass"):
Chloris gayana; Rhodes grass (perennial grass of South Africa introduced into United States; cultivated as forage grass in dry regions)
Chloris truncata; creeping windmill grass; star grass; windmill grass (perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill)
