HyperDic: yardgrass

English > 1 sense of the word yardgrass:
NOUNplantyardgrass, yard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indicacoarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers
English > yardgrass: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningcoarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere.
Synonymsyard grass, wire grass, goose grass, Eleusine indica
Member ofEleusine, genus Eleusineannual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands
BroadermilletAny of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
Spanishyardgrass
Catalanyardgrass

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