Wheatgrass (Noun)
Meaning
A grass of the genus Agropyron.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Some proponents claim wheatgrass is packed with a rich amount of essential nutrients beneficial to one's overall health.
- Drinking a single ounce of wheatgrass has nutritional properties rivaling two and a half pounds of other vegetables combined, although research questions the feasibility.
- However in America for wheatgrass - once solely appreciated and encouraged for its hardiness and natural preservation traits within open environments - the nutritional aspects have also been closely studied.
- The cultivation process of wheatgrass often begins indoors under controlled temperature conditions and transplanted into sun drenched dry plots or even potting soil indoors where the seeds take root.
- Despite speculation and widely debated ideas regarding wheatgrass claims and benefits science has discovered that such assertions may have grounding in the high density vitamin as well nutrient properties within its content.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- Agropyron Cristatum
- Agropyron Intermedium
- Agropyron Trachycaulum
- Quick Grass
- Agropyron Repens
- Elymus Trachycaulos
- Quackgrass
- Witch Grass
- Bluestem Wheatgrass
- Agropyron Pauciflorum
- Agropyron Subsecundum
- Witchgrass
- Fairway Crested Wheat Grass
- Quack Grass
- Agropyron Smithii
- Couch Grass
- Crested Wheat Grass
- Elymus Hispidus