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Cynodon

noun

creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa

• Syn: ↑genus Cynodon

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms:

↑Bermuda grass, ↑devil grass, ↑Bahama grass, ↑kweek, ↑doob, ↑scutch grass, ↑star grass, ↑Cynodon dactylon, ↑giant star grass, ↑Cynodon plectostachyum

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌdän\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kynodōn canine tooth, from kyn- cyn- + odōn tooth — more at tooth

: a genus of creeping grasses having short flat leaves and digitate spikes of one-flowered spikelets — see bermuda grass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.