graminaceous plant

Noun
  1. Cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves (synset 112122387)
    is a type 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
    subtypes:
    • 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
    belongs to: 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
    same as: gramineous plant

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