genus Sporobolus

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1.genus Sporobolus - cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass)Sporobolusliliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedfamily Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar canedropseed, drop-seed - a grass of the genus Sporobolusblackseed, carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii - grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungusrush grass, rush-grass - grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles