arundinaceous

[ uh-ruhn-duh-ney-shuhs ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. pertaining to or like a reed or cane; reedlike; reedy.

arundinaceous

/ əˌrʌndɪˈneɪʃəs /

adjective

1. botany resembling a reed

Word History and Origins

Origin of arundinaceous¹

1650–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin ( h ) arundin- (stem of harundō reed) + -āceus -aceous

Word History and Origins

Origin of arundinaceous¹

C17: from Latin harundināceus, from harundō a reed

Example Sentences

Meadows, partly covered with arundinaceous plants, corn-fields, and European fruit trees, alternated with small thickets and groves.

From Project Gutenberg

The country within is very level, and appeared during the wet season to be occasionally inundated: the soil where we landed is a sour stiff clay on which grew an arundinaceous grass.

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In all other directions the eye wandered over a dreary, low, and uninterruptedly flat country; which in most parts is covered with an arundinaceous grass.

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