rice grass

rice grass

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for cord grass

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Noun

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rice grass - any grass of the genus Oryzopsis     ricegrass genus Oryzopsis, Oryzopsis - rice grass mountain rice, Oryzopsis hymenoides, silk grass, silkgrass, Indian millet - 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 cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet