phleum pratense

1. 1.

   grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay

   Synonymstimothyherd's grass

   Broadergrass

   Part ofPhleum

   Partstimothy

Questions about phleum pratense

What does phleum pratense mean?

phleum pratense means "grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay".

What is another word for phleum pratense?

Close synonyms include timothy, herd's 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 phleum pratense a common word?

phleum pratense 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.