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Buchloe

noun

buffalo grass

• Syn: ↑genus Buchloe

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family

• Member Meronyms: ↑buffalo grass, ↑Buchloe dactyloides

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\\ˈbyükləˌwē\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek bous head of cattle + chloēyoung grass; akin to Greek chloos light green — more at cow, glow

: a genus of perennial stoloniferous grasses (family Gramineae) having pistillate and staminate spikelets borne on the same or separate plants, the pistillate in sessile capitate clusters and the staminate in elongated one-sided racemes — see buffalo grass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.