grano-

American  

1. a combining form representing granite in compound words.

   granophyre.

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grano- British  

combining form

1. of or resembling granite

   granolith

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Etymology

Origin of grano-

< German, combining form of Granit granite; -o-

Example Sentences

My Airbnb host told me about Pastificio Ancora, a small artisanal shop that sells fresh pasta, where I leapt at the chance to buy orecchiette made with a kind of burnt wheat, called grano arso—a Pugliese oddity rooted in poverty and now a sign of culinary refinement.

From The Wall Street Journal

I whipped up some orecchiette al pomodoro, using grano arso pasta the color of concrete, in my guest apartment in under 20 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The assessment and treatment of adolescent mental health has been entirely underresourced in Finland. Now, the launch and development of operations by the new wellbeing services counties offers a great opportunity to develop psychiatric care for adolescents and take into consideration the assessment and potential treatment, even in the short term, of common symptoms that are often excluded from systematic assessment," says Granö.

From Science Daily

"Our findings provide a clear recommendation for treatment practices: psychotic-like experiences should be assessed as part of routine procedures, but it is also important to determine how they are perceived. These phenomena cannot be uncovered unless separately and systematically asked," says the principal investigator, Docent Niklas Granö.

From Science Daily

The new case, said Marc A. Grano, a lawyer and former prosecutor in New Mexico, will most likely become a back and forth over what is “standard practice” in the film and TV industry, a battle that may include conflicting opinions and examples.

From New York Times