单词 | gramineous |
释义 | gramineousadj. Of or pertaining to grass; resembling grass; grassy; spec. belonging to the family Gramineæ. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [adjective] > full of or abounding in herbaceous plants > of or relating to grass grassy1590 graminosous1623 gramineal1658 gramineous1658 graminose1727 graminous1769 graminaceous1847 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Gramineous, or Gramineal, grassie or made of grasse. Whence in later Dicts. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 73 Gramineous Plants not used by men for Food, may be distributed into such as are more properly called Grasses [etc.]. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 169 From the top rises a long gramineous spike. 1881 A. Elwes tr. A. de S. Pinto How I crossed Afr. I. v. 101 It flows through vast plains, slightly undulated and clothed with gramineous plants. Derivatives graˈmineousness n. ΚΠ 1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1658 |
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