feathertop grass

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   northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles

   SynonymsfeathertopPennistum villosum

   Broadergrass

   Part ofPennisetum

Questions about feathertop grass

What does feathertop grass mean?

feathertop grass means "northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles".

What is another word for feathertop grass?

Close synonyms include feathertop, Pennistum villosum. 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 feathertop grass a common word?

feathertop grass 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.