wire grass

Questions about wire grass

What is another word for wire grass?

It depends which wire grass you mean. In the sense “handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn”, the synonyms are broom beard grass, prairie grass, Andropogon scoparius, Schizachyrium scoparium. Across all 2 senses there are 8 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 wire grass?

WordNet records no antonym for wire grass. 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.

Why are the synonyms for wire grass split into groups?

Because wire grass carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for wire grass 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 wire grass

• Full entry for wire grassAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wire grassWhether 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.