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
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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
The river is bordered with Lata, a fine gramineous plant with distich leaves, which sometimes reaches the height of thirty feet.*
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
In the low and humid places of the equinoxial zone, even when the gramineous plants and reeds present the aspect of a meadow, of turf, a rich decoration of the picture is usually wanting.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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