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carpet grass

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

Syllables
car-pet -grass
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various grasses of the genus Axonopus, of tropical and subtropical American, some of which are rhizomatous; now widespread throughout the tropics worldwide.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

carpet grasses (plural) carpetgrass (alternative)

Phrases

broadleaf carpet grass Japanese carpet grass narrow-leaved carpet grass narrow leaved carpet grass narrowleaf carpet grass

Synonyms

smut grass blackseed sporobolus poiretii

Questions

What does carpet grass mean?
Any of various grasses of the genus Axonopus, of tropical and subtropical American, some of which are rhizomatous; now widespread throughout the tropics worldwide.

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