gramineous

American  

[gruh-min-ee-uhs] / grəˈmɪn i əs /

adjective

1. grasslike.

2. belonging to the Gramineae family of plants.

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gramineous British  

/ ɡrəˈmɪnɪəs /

adjective

1. Also: graminaceous.  resembling a grass; grasslike

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Other Word Forms

• gramineousness noun

Etymology

Origin of gramineous

1650–60; < Latin grāmineus pertaining to grass, equivalent to grāmin- (stem of grāmen ) grass + -eus -eous

Example Sentences

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

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 Ruskin, John

Europe is indebted to America for this valuable gramineous plant.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Sugar itself does not exist in gramineous substances; they only contain its elements, or first principles, which produce it.

From The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain by C. M.