arundinaceous
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of arundinaceous
1650–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin ( h ) arundin- (stem of harundō reed) + -āceus -aceous
Example Sentences
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Meadows, partly covered with arundinaceous plants, corn-fields, and European fruit trees, alternated with small thickets and groves.
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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.
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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.
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