wheat-grass
English Thesaurus
1. a grass of the genus Agropyron (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | grass, |
| definition | : | narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron cristatum, crested wheat grass, crested wheatgrass, fairway crested wheat grass, |
| definition | : | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass, |
| definition | : | European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron subsecundum, bearded wheatgrass, |
| definition | : | a wheatgrass with straight terminal awns on the flowering glumes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron smithii, bluestem wheatgrass, western wheatgrass, |
| definition | : | valuable forage grass of western United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron intermedium, elymus hispidus, intermediate wheatgrass, |
| definition | : | Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | agropyron pauciflorum, agropyron trachycaulum, elymus trachycaulos, slender wheatgrass, |
| definition | : | North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | agropyron, genus agropyron, |
| definition | : | perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass (noun.plant) |
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