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Lolium

noun

darnel; ryegrass

• Syn: ↑genus Lolium

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑rye grass, ↑ryegrass

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\\ˈlōlēəm, ˈläl-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, darnel

: a genus of grasses characterized by two-ranked many-flowered spikelets — see darnel, ryegrass

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lolium /lōˈli-əm/

noun

Any plant of the Lolium genus of grasses, including darnel and rye-grass

ORIGIN: L lōlium darnel, ‘tares’

Useful english dictionary. 2012.