GRAMINEOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gramineous plant mean? 

• GRAMINEOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun GRAMINEOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMINEOUS PLANT (noun)

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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 ("gramineous 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 "gramineous 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 ("gramineous 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)