elymus caput-medusae

1. 1.

   weedy rye grass having long bristling awns

   Synonymsmedusa's head

   Broaderwild rye

Questions about elymus caput-medusae

What does elymus caput-medusae mean?

elymus caput-medusae means "weedy rye grass having long bristling awns".

What is another word for elymus caput-medusae?

Close synonyms include medusa's head. 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 elymus caput-medusae a common word?

elymus caput-medusae 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.