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agrostis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun agrostis has 1 sense
- agrostis(n = noun.plant) genus agrostis - annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland); Array is a kind of plant genus
is a member of family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
agrostis, n. [L., fr. Gr. .].
A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris ), are valuable pasture grasses. [1913 Webster]
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