arundinaceous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of arundinaceous
1650–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin ( h ) arundin- (stem of harundō reed) + -āceus -aceous
Example Sentences
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In all other directions the eye wandered over a dreary, low, and uninterruptedly flat country; which in most parts is covered with an arundinaceous grass.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by King, Phillip Parker
Meadows, partly covered with arundinaceous plants, corn-fields, and European fruit trees, alternated with small thickets and groves.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
The country within is very level, and appeared during the wet season to be occasionally inundated: the soil where we landed is a sour stiff clay on which grew an arundinaceous grass.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by King, Phillip Parker
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