eleusine (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Eleusine*:
NOUN	plant	Eleusine, genus Eleusine	annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands

English > *Eleusine*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
Synonym	genus Eleusine
Member of	Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family	The grasses
Members	finger millet, ragi, ragee, African millet, coracan, corakan, kurakkan, Eleusine coracana	East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient
Members	yardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica	coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers
Broader	monocot genus, liliopsid genus	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Spanish	eleusine, genus eleusine
Catalan	eleusine, Eleusine, genus eleusine

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