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gramineous, a.|greɪˈmɪnɪəs|
[ad. L. grāmine-us (f. grāmin-, grāmen grass) + -ous.]
Of or pertaining to grass; resembling grass; grassy; spec. belonging to the family Gramineæ.
1658[see gramineal]. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 73 Gramineous Plants not used by men for Food, may be distributed into such as are more properly called Grasses [etc.]. 1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 169 From the top rises a long gramineous spike. 1881Elwes tr. A. de S. Pinto's How I crossed Afr. I. v. 101 It flows through vast plains, slightly undulated and clothed with gramineous plants.
Hence graˈmineousness.
1727in Bailey vol. II. |