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GRAMINACEOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graminaceous plant mean? 

GRAMINACEOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun GRAMINACEOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leavesplay

  Familiarity information: GRAMINACEOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRAMINACEOUS PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

graminaceous plant; gramineous plant

Hypernyms ("graminaceous plant" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graminaceous plant"):

grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)

Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)

reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)

bamboo (woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture)

Holonyms ("graminaceous plant" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)


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