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Eragrostis

noun

annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics

• Syn: ↑genus Eragrostis

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑love grass, ↑bay grass

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\\ˌerəgrästə̇s\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek eros love + agrōstis, a kind of grass

: a genus of grasses resembling the bluegrasses but having flattened spikelets and deciduous lemmas

Useful english dictionary. 2012.