dactyloctenium aegypticum

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   a creeping grass with spikes like fingers

   SynonymsEgyptian grasscrowfoot grass

   Broadercrabgrass

Questions about dactyloctenium aegypticum

What does dactyloctenium aegypticum mean?

dactyloctenium aegypticum means "a creeping grass with spikes like fingers".

What is another word for dactyloctenium aegypticum?

Close synonyms include Egyptian grass, crowfoot 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 dactyloctenium aegypticum a common word?

dactyloctenium aegypticum 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.