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Definition of Gramineous plant
1. Noun. Cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves.
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Specialized synonyms: Grass, Saccharum Officinarum, Sugar Cane, Sugarcane, Reed, Bamboo
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gramineous Plant
Literary usage of Gramineous plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1822)
"The trunks of the trees presented here an extraordinary phenomenon ; a gramineous
plant, with verticillate branches *, climbs, like a liana, ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1872)
"The trunks of the trees presented here an extraordinary phenomenon ; a gramineous
plant, with verticillate branches,* climbs, like a liana, ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Under the cover of th brush the gramineous plant formations predominate, while
sedg grasses (Cyperaceae) abound in the more shaded and wet situation» For ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"The only gramineous plant with which I have had a large experience is sweet corn,
and here the case of legumes is reversed. I have never been able to detect ..."
5. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"... the surface of a fresh leaf of some gramineous plant: after keeping it in
moist air for about 48—60 hours, strip off a part of the epidermis, or better, ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1835)
"Even annual plants themselves, can, though with more difficulty, produce new
shoots ; and every stalk of a gramineous plant is the developement of a radicle ..."
7. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"If this beautiful gramineous plant had belonged to the old continent, the ancient
naturalists and authorities on farming would not have failed to mention it ..."
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