"wheatgrass" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wheatgrasses [plural]
Etymology: wheat + grass Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wheat|grass}} wheat + grass Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} wheatgrass (usually uncountable, plural wheatgrasses)
  1. Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (young grass of common wheat plant): 小麥草 (Chinese Mandarin), 小麦草 (xiǎomàicǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), vehnänoras (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-wheatgrass-en-noun-vj6iC1kD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 31 Disambiguation of 'young grass of common wheat plant': 86 14
  2. A grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (lifeform): Hordeeae tribe grasses Translations (Agropyron): 小麥草 (Chinese Mandarin), 小麦草 (xiǎomàicǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), harjasvehnä (Finnish), grama [feminine] (Galician), agropiro [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-wheatgrass-en-noun-YFK5IaiQ Disambiguation of Hordeeae tribe grasses: 40 60 Disambiguation of 'Agropyron': 12 88

Inflected forms

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