gramineous
pronunciation
How to pronounce gramineous in British English:
UK [greɪ'mɪnɪəs]
How to pronounce gramineous in American English:
US [grə'mɪnɪrs]
Word Origin
- gramineous (adj.)
- 1650s, from Latin gramineus "of grass, grassy," from gramen (genitive graminis) "grass, fodder," from PIE *gras-men-, suffixed form of root *gras- "to devour" (see gastric). The Latin adjective also is the source of the botanical order of Gramineae.
Example
- 1. Photosynthetic characteristics of several gramineous weeds during fructification period in dry farmland .
- 2. Table 2 the synergism of methyl oleate adjuvant on sethoxydim and acifluorfen controlling gramineous weeds .
- 3. Try proved recipe way with long-term fixed position , studied immature soil of red earth of 3 kinds of models austral hunan fertilizes for a long time 26 years to produce the effect of the quantity to gramineous crop .
- 4. The species sequence of root growth resistance to se was : wheat and barley ( gramineous ) was the highest , followed by broccoli and radish ( cruciferous ) , and then was medic ( leguminous ) , parsley ( umbelliferous ) was the lowest .
- 5. Kind the benefit of birds of cultivate of gramineous breed aquatics reachs concerned issue .