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

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

We passed over an immense plain covered with gramineous plants.

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

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.

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

The bamboo belongs to the gramineous family; it grows in thick groves, in the woods, on the river banks, and wherever it finds a humid soil.

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de