star grass
English Thesaurus
1. perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | finger grass, |
definition | : | any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils (noun.plant) |
2. trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | grass, |
definition | : | narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | cynodon, genus cynodon, |
definition | : | creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa (noun.plant) |
3. any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | cormous plant, |
definition | : | plant growing from a corm (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | genus hypoxis, hypoxis, |
definition | : | small plants that resemble amaryllis and that grow from a corm and bear flowers on a leafless stalk; sometimes classified as member of the family Amaryllidaceae: star grass (noun.plant) |
4. any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | liliaceous plant, |
definition | : | plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | aletris aurea, yellow colicroot, |
definition | : | colicroot with yellow-bracted racemose flowers; smaller than Aletris farinosa; southeastern United States (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | aletris, genus aletris, |
definition | : | small genus of bitter-rooted herbs of eastern North America and Asia; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae (noun.plant) |
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