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plume grass

plume grass noun: grasses of the genus Erianthus, of the Americas.

Noun

plume grass (countable and uncountable, plural plume grasses)

  1. Grasses of the genus Erianthus, of the Americas.
  2. Silver bluestem, a grass of species Bothriochloa saccharoides), having spikelets arranged in long silky plumes, that grows in swamps in the southern United States.
  3. Ravenna grass, Italian sugar cane (Tripidium ravennae).

Forms of plume grass

pluralplume grasses

Words formed from plume grass

  • Australian plume grass
  • Baldwin's plumegrass
  • bent-awn plumegrass
  • compressed plumegrass
  • longhair plume grass
  • purple plume grass
  • short-beard plumegrass
  • short-hair plume grass
  • sugarcane plumegrass

Questions about plume grass

What does plume grass mean?
Plume grass means grasses of the genus Erianthus, of the Americas.
What part of speech is plume grass?
Plume grass is a noun.
What is the plural of plume grass?
The plural of plume grass is plume grasses.

Words near plume grass in the dictionary

  1. plumcots
  2. plumdamas
  3. plumdamases
  4. plume
  5. plume alum
  6. plume grass
  7. plume grasses
  8. plume head
  9. plume holder
  10. plume holders
  11. plume moth

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