noun
annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses
• Syn: ↑genus Setaria
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms:
↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family
• Member Meronyms: ↑bristlegrass, ↑bristle grass, ↑foxtail millet, ↑Italian millet, ↑Hungarian grass, ↑Setaria italica
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\\sə̇ˈta(a)rēə\ noun1.
a. capitalized : a large and widely distributed genus of annual and perennial grasses having a dense or open cylindrical inflorescence in which the individual spikelets are subtended by one or more bristles that persist after the spikelets fall and including several grasses that yield forage or hay — see foxtail 2a, foxtail millet
2. capitalized : a genus of filarial worms parasitic as adults in the body cavity of various ungulate mammals and producing larvae that wander in the tissues and occasionally invade the eye
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/si tair"ee euh/, n.
any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.