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wheatgrass

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables
wheat-grass
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.

Uncountable

noun

A grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass.

Uncountable

Etymology

From wheat + grass.

Usage

Inflected Forms

wheatgrasses (plural)

Phrases

crested wheatgrass

Synonyms

wheat-grass

Questions

What does wheatgrass mean?
Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption.
Where does wheatgrass come from?
From wheat + grass.

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