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Digitaria

noun

crab grass; finger grass

• Syn: ↑genus Digitaria

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑crabgrass, ↑crab grass, ↑finger grass

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\\ˌdijə̇ˈta(a)rēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin digitus finger + New Latin -aria — more at toe

: a genus of grasses found in warm regions and having one-flowered spikelets in one-sided digitately arranged racemes — see crabgrass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.