"silvergrass" meaning in English

See silvergrass in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: silvergrasses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} silvergrass (plural silvergrasses)
  1. A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes
    Sense id: en-silvergrass-en-noun-HS24l-Cg
  2. (Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides. Tags: Australia Categories (lifeform): Andropogoneae tribe grasses
    Sense id: en-silvergrass-en-noun-bJsIxeoK Disambiguation of Andropogoneae tribe grasses: 35 65 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 65
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: silver grass

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "silvergrasses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "silvergrass (plural silvergrasses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes"
      ],
      "id": "en-silvergrass-en-noun-HS24l-Cg",
      "links": [
        [
          "grass",
          "grass"
        ],
        [
          "Miscanthus sinensis",
          "Miscanthus sinensis#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "silvery",
          "silvery"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Andropogoneae tribe grasses",
          "orig": "en:Andropogoneae tribe grasses",
          "parents": [
            "Grasses",
            "Commelinids",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:",
          "text": "At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides."
      ],
      "id": "en-silvergrass-en-noun-bJsIxeoK",
      "links": [
        [
          "grass",
          "grass"
        ],
        [
          "Poaceae",
          "Poaceae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "mulga grass",
          "mulga grass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "silver grass"
    }
  ],
  "word": "silvergrass"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Andropogoneae tribe grasses"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "silvergrasses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "silvergrass (plural silvergrasses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grass",
          "grass"
        ],
        [
          "Miscanthus sinensis",
          "Miscanthus sinensis#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "silvery",
          "silvery"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:",
          "text": "At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grass",
          "grass"
        ],
        [
          "Poaceae",
          "Poaceae#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "mulga grass",
          "mulga grass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "silver grass"
    }
  ],
  "word": "silvergrass"
}

Download raw JSONL data for silvergrass meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.