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Definition of Graminales
1. Noun. Grasses; sedges; rushes.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Commelinidae, Subclass Commelinidae
Member holonyms: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Family Cyperaceae, Sedge Family
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graminales
Literary usage of Graminales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"Graminales, the Grass and Sedge Order.—This is one of the largest groups of the
... The Graminales and the palms (Principales) which belong to an order ..."
2. Report (1913)
"Family 10. Hydrocharitaceae. 27. Elodea Canadensis, MX. Water Weed. Slow flowing
water. Rare. Order VII. Graminales. Family II. Graminaceae. The Grasses. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... arranged in spikes or spikelets. Fruit a caryopsis (grain) ; stems (culms)
mostly hollow in our species. Fam. io. Gramineae. i : 107. Orders. Graminales ..."
4. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia W. Henshaw (1915)
"Graminales XII. GRAMINE.E. GRASS FAMILY Herbs with culms closed at the nodes;
leaves paralleled-veined, consisting of a sheath and a blade: flowers perfect, ..."
5. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The grass and sedge order, Graminales, including more than 6000 species, one of
the most successful assemblages of angiosperms and by far the largest in the ..."
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