gramínea

Definitions of gramínea
  1. noun
    cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves
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    hierba
    narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
    bejuco
    tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
    bambú
    woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture
    cañavera
    any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere
    centinodia
    low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems
    alpiste
    Canary Islands grass; seeds used as feed for caged birds
    cereal
    grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
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    planta herbácea
    a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
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