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Definition of Giant reed
1. Noun. Large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giant Reed
Literary usage of Giant reed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"Arundo • The giant reed A tall leafy species with stout stems and showy ...
giant reed. A hardy, vigorous perennial, attaining a height of ю to 15 feet. ..."
2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"It is sometimes called the giant reed, and is often erroneously mistaken for the
bamboo to which it is only distantly related. In England the stems are said ..."
3. A flora of western middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"A. donax L. giant reed. Rootstock very stout, creeping, tufted; roots stout,
fibrous; stems in dense clumps, 10 to 20 ft. high, mostly with short, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"Flags and giant reed-mace, or bulrushes, fringe it round, in some instances
spreading out for some distance from the shore into the water : there is not now ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"giant reed. Figs. 147148. Towering straight stems 8-30 ft. high, which grow very
rapidly, clothed with broad, pointed leaves at regular intervals. ..."
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