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

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

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

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.

We passed southwards over large tracts of bush and gramineous plants, with patches of small plantations, manioc and thur; and settlements girt by calabash-trees, cocoas, palmyra and oil palms.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir