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feathertop

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: feathertop

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n
northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles
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n
a variety of reed grass
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: feathertop
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n northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles

Synonyms:
Pennistum villosum, feathertop grass
Type of:
grass
narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
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n a variety of reed grass

Synonyms:
Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass
Type of:
reed grass
any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
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