| finger grass 
 
 1. grasses with creeping stems that root freely;
 a pest in lawns
 • Syn:
 crabgrass, crab grass
 • Hypernyms:
 grass
 • Hyponyms:
 Egyptian grass, crowfoot grass, Dactyloctenium aegypticum, smooth crabgrass, Digitaria ischaemum,
 large crabgrass, hairy finger grass, Digitaria sanguinalis
 • Member Holonyms:
 Digitaria, genus Digitaria
 2. any grass of the genus Chloris;
 occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils
 • Hypernyms:
 grass
 • Hyponyms:
 Rhodes grass, Chloris gayana, windmill grass, creeping windmill grass, star grass, Chloris truncata
 
 
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