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onion grass

onion grass noun: species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata.

onion grass: species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata
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Noun

onion grass (usually uncountable, plural onion grasses)

  1. (US, usually) Species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata.
  2. (Australia, usually) Any of several species of non-native grasses of the genus Romulea, including Romulea rosea.
    • Peter Latz […] described the technique of women harvesting the tubers of onion grass […].2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 54
  3. (usually) Wild or feral chives, garlic, or other species with grass-like leaves in the genus Allium, particularly Allium vineale, a wild herb native to Europe and western Asia, naturalised elsewhere; a common lawn weed.
    Synonyms:
    crow garlic, field garlic, wild onion, wild scallion, wild garlic

Synonyms of onion grass

Forms of onion grass

pluralonion grasses

Questions about onion grass

What does onion grass mean?
Onion grass means species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa and Melica subulata.
What part of speech is onion grass?
Onion grass is a noun.
What is the plural of onion grass?
The plural of onion grass is onion grasses.

Words near onion grass in the dictionary

  1. onion fishes
  2. onion flies
  3. onion flute
  4. onion flutes
  5. onion fly
  6. onion grass
  7. onion grasses
  8. onion Johnnies
  9. onion Johnny
  10. onion maggot
  11. onion maggots

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