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FINGER GRASS

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English dictionary: Word overview

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.


English dictionary: Word details


FINGER GRASS (noun)


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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)


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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)


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