Cynodon

noun

Cyn·​o·​don

: a genus of creeping grasses having short flat leaves and digitate spikes of one-flowered spikelets see bermuda grass

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek kynodōn canine tooth, from kyn- cyn- + odōn tooth

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