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GRAMINEOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves
Synonyms:
graminaceous plant; gramineous plant
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Hypernyms ("gramineous plant" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gramineous plant"):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Saccharum officinarum; sugar cane; sugarcane (tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar)
reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)
bamboo (woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture)
Holonyms ("gramineous plant" is a member of...):
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)
