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grass family
n.
A large family of plants, the Poaceae (or Gramineae), characterized by usually hollow stems, sheath-forming leaves in two longitudinal rows, and minute flowers arranged in spikelets. The grasses include food plants such as wheat, rice, corn, barley, oats, and sorghum and also plants used for turf, fodder, and shelter.
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grass′ fam`ily
n.
a family, Gramineae, of nonwoody plants with hollow jointed stems sheathed by narrow leaves, petalless flowers, and fruit resembling grain.
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| Noun | 1. |  grass family - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar caneliliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Graminales, order Graminales - grasses; sedges; rushes graminaceous plant, gramineous plant - cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves Aegilops, genus Aegilops - goat grass Agropyron, genus Agropyron - perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass Agrostis, genus Agrostis - annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from `bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland) Alopecurus, genus Alopecurus - annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds Andropogon, genus Andropogon - tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions Arrhenatherum, genus Arrhenatherum - oat grass Arundo, genus Arundo - any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds Avena, genus Avena - oats Bromus, genus Bromus - a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae Bouteloua, genus Bouteloua - forage grasses Buchloe, genus Buchloe - buffalo grass Calamagrostis, genus Calamagrostis - reed grass Cenchrus, genus Cenchrus - a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs Chloris, genus Chloris - tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass Cortaderia, genus Cortaderia - tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass Cynodon, genus Cynodon - creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa Dactylis, genus Dactylis - a monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species) Dactyloctenium, genus Dactyloctenium - a monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae Digitaria, genus Digitaria - crab grass; finger grass Echinochloa, genus Echinochloa - annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions Eleusine, genus Eleusine - annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands Elymus, genus Elymus - tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye) Eragrostis, genus Eragrostis - annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics Erianthus, genus Erianthus - genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs Festuca, genus Festuca - a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae genus Glyceria, Glyceria - manna grass genus Holcus, Holcus - a genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America genus Hordeum, Hordeum - annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley genus Leymus, Leymus - genus that in some classifications overlaps the genus Elymus genus Lolium, Lolium - darnel; ryegrass genus Muhlenbergia, Muhlenbergia - a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia genus Oryza, Oryza - rice genus Oryzopsis, Oryzopsis - rice grass genus Panicum, Panicum - panic grass genus Paspalum - a genus of perennial grasses of warm regions genus Pennisetum, Pennisetum - a genus of Old World grasses genus Phalaris, Phalaris - a genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers genus Phleum, Phleum - grasses native to temperate regions genus Phragmites, Phragmites - reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions meadow grass, meadowgrass - any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture genus Saccharum, Saccharum - tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane genus Schizachyrium, Schizachyrium - overlaps the genus Andropogon |
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