chloris gayana

1. 1.

   perennial grass of South Africa introduced into United States; cultivated as forage grass in dry regions

   SynonymsRhodes grass

   Broaderfinger grass

Questions about chloris gayana

What does chloris gayana mean?

chloris gayana means "perennial grass of South Africa introduced into United States; cultivated as forage grass in dry regions".

What is another word for chloris gayana?

Close synonyms include Rhodes grass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chloris gayana a common word?

chloris gayana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.