nutgrass

Questions about nutgrass

What is another word for nutgrass?

It depends which nutgrass you mean. In the sense “a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers”, the synonyms are nut grass, nutsedge, nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nutgrass?

WordNet records no antonym for nutgrass. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nutgrass come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of nutgrass

• Full entry for nutgrassAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nutgrassWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.