grass family

Questions about grass family

What does grass family mean?

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

What is another word for grass family?

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

grass family 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.