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

4 senses of star grass

Sense 1
colicroot, colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root -- (any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic)
       => liliaceous plant -- (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Sense 2
star grass -- (any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America)
       => cormous plant -- (plant growing from a corm)

Sense 3
Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, kweek, doob, scutch grass, star grass, Cynodon dactylon -- (trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India)
       => grass -- (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Sense 4
windmill grass, creeping windmill grass, star grass, Chloris truncata -- (perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill)
       => finger grass -- (any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils)