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star grass   (TTS Sound)

The noun star grass has 4 senses

• 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)


• star grass -- (any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America)


• 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)


• windmill grass, creeping windmill grass, star grass, Chloris truncata -- (perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill)