Definition of "graminaceous" []

• Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass (adjective)

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• "But the graminaceous plants do not usually have bacteria associated with their roots to fix nitrogen from the air."
• ""Commonness will prevail," as De Candolle said in speaking of the graminaceous plants."
• "Silica, indeed, if at all capable of producing a beneficial effect, ought to be useful to these crops, either by strengthening the straw, or stems of graminaceous plants, or otherwise benefiting them; but, after deducting the amount of silica from the total amount of mineral matters in the wheat produced from one acre, only a trifling quantity of other and more valuable fertilizing ash constituents of plants will be left."