graminaceous
31gramineous plant — noun cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves • Syn: ↑graminaceous plant • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑grass, ↑sugarcane, ↑ …
32grass family — noun the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane • Syn: ↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae • Hypernyms: ↑ …
33herbaceous plant — noun a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests • Syn: ↑herb • Derivationally related forms: ↑herbal (for: ↑herb) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
34Poaceae — noun the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane • Syn: ↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family • Hypernyms: ↑ …
35Saccharum officinarum — noun tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar • Syn: ↑sugarcane, ↑sugar cane • Hypernyms: ↑gramineous plant, ↑graminaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑noble cane …
36sugar cane — noun 1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice • Syn: ↑sugarcane • Hypernyms: ↑cane • Part Holonyms: ↑sugarcane, ↑Saccharum officinarum 2. tall trop …
37sugarcane — noun 1. juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice • Syn: ↑sugar cane • Hypernyms: ↑cane • Part Holonyms: ↑sugar cane, ↑Saccharum officinarum 2. tall …
38gramineous — adj. = GRAMINACEOUS. Etymology: L gramineus f. gramen inis grass …
39culmicolous — /kul mik euh leuhs/, adj. (of a fungus) growing on grass culms. [CULM2 + I + COLOUS] * * * culˈmicolous, a. [f. L. culmus culm2 + cola dwelling + ous.] ‘Living on straw or the stems of graminaceous plants’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1882). Said of some… …
40ear-cockle — earˈ cockle noun A disease of wheat caused by a threadworm (genus Tylenchus) • • • Main Entry: ↑ear * * * ear cockle (ˈɪəˌkɒk(ə)l) [? f. ear n.2 + cockle in some sense, perhaps the name of the weed.] ‘A disease of wheat and other graminaceous… …
