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gramineous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
grami-neous
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to plants in the grass family (Gramineae, Poaceae).

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gramineus. From oblique stem of Latin grāmen, grāminis (“grass, turf, herb, plant”) + -eous.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more gramineous (comparative) most gramineous (superlative)

Synonyms

poaceous graminaceous graminous

Questions

What does gramineous mean?
Of or pertaining to plants in the grass family (Gramineae, Poaceae).
Where does gramineous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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