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Definition of Arundinaria gigantea
1. Noun. Tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets.
Group relationships: Canebrake
Generic synonyms: Bamboo
Group relationships: Arundinaria, Genus Arundinaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arundinaria Gigantea
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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