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HUNGARIAN GRASS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Hungarian grass mean?

• HUNGARIAN GRASS (noun)
The noun HUNGARIAN GRASS has 1 sense:

1. coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States

Familiarity information: HUNGARIAN GRASS used as a noun is very rare.

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• HUNGARIAN GRASS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

foxtail millet; Hungarian grass; Italian millet; Setaria italica

Hypernyms ("Hungarian grass" is a kind of...):

foxtail; foxtail grass (grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hungarian grass"):

Setaria italica rubrofructa; Siberian millet (millet having orange to reddish grains in long bristly spikes)

German millet; golden wonder millet; Setaria italica stramineofructa (millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes)

Holonyms ("Hungarian grass" is a member of...):

genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)

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