English > Sporobolus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass). |
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| Synonym | genus Sporobolus |
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| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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| Members | dropseed, drop-seed | A grass of the genus Sporobolus |
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| rush grass, rush-grass | grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles |
| smut grass, blackseed, carpet grass, Sporobolus poiretii | grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | genus sporobolus, sporobolus |
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| Catalan | genus sporobolus, sporobolus, Sporobolus |
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