wheat-grass

1. 1.

   a grass of the genus Agropyron

   Synonymswheatgrass

   Broadergrass

   Narrowercrested wheatgrassdog grassbearded wheatgrasswestern wheatgrassintermediate wheatgrassslender wheatgrass

   Part ofAgropyron

Questions about wheat-grass

What does wheat-grass mean?

wheat-grass means "a grass of the genus Agropyron".

How many syllables are in wheat-grass?

wheat-grass has 3 syllables: whe-at--grass. The stress falls on "whe".

What is another word for wheat-grass?

Close synonyms include wheatgrass. 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 wheat-grass a common word?

wheat-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.