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phragmites
[ frag-mahy-teez ]
noun
- any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of phragmites1
< New Latin (1820) < Greek phragmī́tēs growing in hedges, equivalent to phrágm ( a ) fence, breastwork, screen (noun derivative of phrássein ( Attic phráttein ) to fence in, hedge around) + -ītēs -ite 1
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Example Sentences
The Papyrus antiquorum, ten feet high, has much the same habit as our Phragmites and other water plants.
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Hides by day in the old stems of reed (Phragmites), and feeds at night on the leaves, August to October.
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It feeds from August to October on the leaves of the reed (Phragmites), hiding by day in the stems.
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It feeds from April to June in the stems of reed (Phragmites), causing the leaves of the affected stems to whiten.
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Dr. William Marshall writes, that it only breeds in certain localities where a large water reed (Phragmites arundinacea) abounds.
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