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Arrhenatherum

noun

oat grass

• Syn: ↑genus Arrhenatherum

• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus

• Member Holonyms:

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

• Member Meronyms: ↑tall oat grass, ↑tall meadow grass, ↑evergreen grass, ↑false oat, ↑French rye, ↑Arrhenatherum elatius

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\\ˌarəˈnathərəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek arrhen-, arrhēn male + ather-, athēr awn; from the awned staminate lemma; akin to Sanskrit arṣati it flows, ṛṣabha bull, Latin ros dew — more at roric

: a genus of Eurasiatic grasses that have 2-flowered spikelets, the first floret staminate and awned from the back and are naturalized in cooler parts of No. America — see tall oat grass

Useful english dictionary. 2012.