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GENUS PHRAGMITES

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phragmites mean?

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

1. reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS PHRAGMITES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phragmites; Phragmites

Hypernyms ("genus Phragmites" 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 Phragmites"):

carrizo; common reed; ditch reed; Phragmites communis (tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts)

Holonyms ("genus Phragmites" 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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