gramineous
Americanadjective
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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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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
To the height of 700 toises, and even beyond, this mountain, like those in its vicinity, is covered only with gramineous plants.*
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
Thus the action of nitrification has been found to be more marked in the lower layers of a soil on which a leguminous crop was growing than on that on which a gramineous.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton
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
Europe is indebted to America for this valuable gramineous plant.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker
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