Definition of Phragmites

1. Noun. Reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions.


Definition of Phragmites

1. Noun. Any of several perennial reeds, of the genus ''Phragmites'', found in wetlands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phragmites

photoxylographic
photoxylography
photozincograph
photozincographic
photozincographs
photozincography
phots
photted
photting
photuria
phoxim
phpht
phr
phrag
phragmacone
phragmites (current term)
phragmocone
phragmocones
phragmoplast
phragmoplasts
phragmosiphon
phragmosis
phragmosome
phragmotic
phrantic
phrantick
phrasal
phrasal idiom
phrasal preposition
phrasal prepositions

Literary usage of Phragmites

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

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1807)
"CHAR. Cal. of 2 valves. Florets surrounded with long down. SPEC. CHAR. Calyx containing five florets. Panicle loose. SYN. Arundo phragmites. Linn. Sp. PI. ..."

2. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1819)
"Description of a New Hygrometer, made of the ternal membrane of the Arundo phragmites*. ... phragmites ..."

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