fountain grass

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   tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia

   SynonymsPennisetum ruppeliiPennisetum setaceum

   Broadergrass

   Part ofPennisetum

Questions about fountain grass

What does fountain grass mean?

fountain grass means "tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia".

What is another word for fountain grass?

Close synonyms include Pennisetum ruppelii, Pennisetum setaceum. 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 fountain grass a common word?

fountain 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.