grasplant

Definitions of grasplant
  1. noun
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
    synonyms: gras, grassoort
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    kanariegras, kanariezaad
    Canary Islands grass; seeds used as feed for caged birds
    graan, graansoort, koren
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
    medusahoofd
    weedy rye grass having long bristling awns
    gerst
    cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
    onkruid
    weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
    nasi
    annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper
    rogge
    hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
    gierst, kafferkoren, pluimgierst, sorghum
    any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine
    tarwe, tarwebrood
    annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    maïs
    tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
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    grasgewas
    cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves
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