gramineae

Other forms of gramineae

plural

gramineaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gramineae

What does gramineae mean?

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

How many syllables are in gramineae?

gramineae has 4 syllables: gra-mi-ne-ae. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for gramineae?

Close synonyms include family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family 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 gramineae a common word?

gramineae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.