GENUS ELEUSINE

• GENUS ELEUSINE (noun)
  The noun GENUS ELEUSINE has 1 sense:

1. annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

  Familiarity information: GENUS ELEUSINE used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS ELEUSINE (noun)

Meaning:

Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleusine; genus Eleusine

Hypernyms ("genus Eleusine" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Eleusine"):

Eleusine indica; goose grass; wire grass; yard grass; yardgrass (coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere)

African millet; coracan; corakan; Eleusine coracana; finger millet; kurakkan; ragee; ragi (East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient)

Holonyms ("genus Eleusine" 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)