Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun feathertop

2 senses of feathertop

Sense 1
feathertop, feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum -- (northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles)
       => grass -- (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Sense 2
feather reed grass, feathertop, Calamagrostis acutiflora -- (a variety of reed grass)
       => 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)