gramineous

American  

[gruh-min-ee-uhs] / grəˈmɪn i əs /

adjective

1. grasslike.

2. belonging to the Gramineae family of plants.

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gramineous British  

/ ɡrəˈmɪnɪəs /

adjective

1. Also: graminaceous.  resembling a grass; grasslike

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Other Word Forms

• gramineousness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of gramineous

1650–60; < Latin grāmineus pertaining to grass, equivalent to grāmin- (stem of grāmen ) grass + -eus -eous

Example Sentences

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gramineous

Nevertheless, the advertisements for allergy medications are full of blooms that don’t cause allergies — a daisy reads better than a gramineous inflorescence.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2017

This, to him, is a familiar thing, representing the gramineous fibre so frequent in the case of burial in grass-covered soil.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Sugar itself does not exist in gramineous substances; they only contain its elements, or first principles, which produce it.

From The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain by C. M.

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The river is bordered with Lata, a fine gramineous plant with distich leaves, which sometimes reaches the height of thirty feet.*

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina