poaceae

Other forms of poaceae

plural

poaceaes·

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 poaceae

What does poaceae mean?

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

How many syllables are in poaceae?

poaceae has 4 syllables: po-a-ce-ae. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for poaceae?

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

poaceae 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.