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Alopecurus

noun

annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds

• Syn: ↑genus Alopecurus

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑meadow foxtail, ↑Alopecurus pratensis

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\\əˌläpəˈkyu̇rəs, ˌaləpə-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek alōpekouros beard grass (Polypogon monspeliensis), from alōpek-, alōpēx fox + -ouros -urous

: a genus of grasses found in temperate regions and having slender culms, flat leaves, and soft spikes — see meadow foxtail

Useful english dictionary. 2012.