family graminaceae

Questions about family graminaceae

What does family graminaceae mean?

family graminaceae means "the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane".

What is another word for family graminaceae?

Close synonyms include Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family graminaceae a common word?

family graminaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.