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ricegrass

DEFINITIONS OF: ricegrass

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n any grass of the genus Oryzopsis

Synonyms:
rice grass
Types:
Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides, mountain rice, silk grass, silkgrass
valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
Oryzopsis miliacea, smilo, smilo grass
perennial mountain rice native to Mediterranean region and introduced into North America
Type of:
cereal, cereal grass
grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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