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Chloris

noun

tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass

• Syn: ↑genus Chloris

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

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\\ˈklōrə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, the goddess Flora, from Greek Chlōris, a feminine name

: a genus of grasses with spikelets in two rows along one side of the rachis and with the spikes being arranged digitately — see finger grass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.