Definition of Arundinaria gigantea

1. Noun. Tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets.

Exact synonyms: Cane Reed, Giant Cane
Group relationships: Canebrake
Generic synonyms: Bamboo
Group relationships: Arundinaria, Genus Arundinaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arundinaria Gigantea

Arturo Toscanini
Arty
Aruba
Aruban
Arubans
Arubian
Arubians
Arulo
Arum maculatum
Arum palaestinum
Arunachal Pradesh
Arundel
Arundelian
Arundhati
Arundinaria
Arundinaria gigantea (current term)
Arundinaria tecta
Arundo
Arundo conspicua
Arundo donax
Arundo richardii
Arunim
Arunta
Aruru
Arvak
Arvaker
Arvanitic
Arvanitika
Arvanitika Albanian
Arverni

Literary usage of Arundinaria gigantea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Large forest trees and dense cane-brakes (Arundinaria gigantea) occupy the drier ground. The Mississippi river is prevented from flooding the Bottom during ..."

2. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"CANE, (Arundinaria gigantea, macrosperma, MX.) Banks of large rivers ; Lawson in his travels in the Carolinas, ..."

3. The Woods and Timbers of North Carolina by Peter M. Hale, Moses Ashley Curtis (1883)
"(Arundinaria gigantea, Chapm.)—This belongs to the Grass family, but, being of woody texture, falls within our arrangement. ..."

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