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ricegrass

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
rice-grass
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the genus Oryzopsis of Chinese and North American plants in the grass family.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From rice + grass, from its resemblance to true rice.

Usage

Inflected Forms

ricegrasses (plural)

Phrases

Indian ricegrass roughleaf ricegrass

Synonyms

rice grass

Questions

What does ricegrass mean?
Any of the genus Oryzopsis of Chinese and North American plants in the grass family.
Where does ricegrass come from?
From rice + grass, from its resemblance to true rice.

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