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from The Century Dictionary.
- A tribe of grasses embracing six genera, distinguished by the five glumes and the spikelet with a single terminal flower, jointed to a pedicel, and generally with two rudimentary lateral flowers attached below the joint. See Phalaris, Alopecurus, and Hierochloë.
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