English noun: finger grass |
1. | finger grass (plant) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns |
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| Synonyms | crab grass, crabgrass |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grass |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | crowfoot grass, Dactyloctenium aegypticum, Digitaria ischaemum, Digitaria sanguinalis, Egyptian grass, hairy finger grass, large crabgrass, smooth crabgrass |
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| Member meronym | Digitaria, genus Digitaria |
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2. | finger grass (plant) any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grass |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Chloris gayana, Chloris truncata, creeping windmill grass, Rhodes grass, star grass, windmill grass |
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