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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of grasses, type of the tribe Phalarideæ, characterized by the dense spike, head, or thyrsus, the lower two glumes larger than the others, the third and fourth short and blunt or bristle-like, and the fifth broader and thinner.
  • noun In zoology, a genus of hemipterous insects.

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  • noun Any of several grasses of the genus Phalaris

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  • noun a genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers

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