English > family Poaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar ... / sugar cane. |
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| Synonyms | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, grass family |
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| Member of | Graminales, order Graminales | grasses |
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| Members | Aegilops, genus Aegilops | goat grass |
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| Agropyron, genus Agropyron | perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions |
| Agrostis, genus Agrostis | annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere |
| Alopecurus, genus Alopecurus | annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds |
| Andropogon, genus Andropogon | tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes |
| Arrhenatherum, genus Arrhenatherum | oat grass |
| Arundo, genus Arundo | Any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas |
| Avena, genus Avena | oats |
| Bambuseae, tribe Bambuseae | bamboos |
| Bouteloua, genus Bouteloua | forage grasses |
| Bromus, genus Bromus | A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae |
| Buchloe, genus Buchloe | buffalo grass |
| Cenchrus, genus Cenchrus | A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs |
| Chloris, genus Chloris | tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners |
| Cortaderia, genus Cortaderia | tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea |
| Cynodon, genus Cynodon | Creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa |
| Dactylis, genus Dactylis | A monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species) |
| Dactyloctenium, genus Dactyloctenium | A monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae |
| Digitaria, genus Digitaria | crab grass |
| Echinochloa, genus Echinochloa | annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions |
| Eleusine, genus Eleusine | annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands |
| Elymus, genus Elymus | tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye) |
| Eragrostis, genus Eragrostis | annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics |
| Erianthus, genus Erianthus | genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs |
| Festuca, genus Festuca | A genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae |
| Glyceria, genus Glyceria | manna grass |
| Holcus, genus Holcus | A genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America |
| Hordeum, genus Hordeum | annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America |
| Leymus, genus Leymus | genus that in some classifications overlaps the genus Elymus |
| Lolium, genus Lolium | darnel |
| Muhlenbergia, genus Muhlenbergia | A genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia |
| Oryza, genus Oryza | rice |
| Oryzopsis, genus Oryzopsis | rice grass |
| Panicum, genus Panicum | panic grass |
| Pennisetum, genus Pennisetum | A genus of Old World grasses |
| Phalaris, genus Phalaris | A genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers |
| Phleum, genus Phleum | grasses native to temperate regions |
| Phragmites, genus Phragmites | reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions |
| Poa, genus Poa | chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions |
| Saccharum, genus Saccharum | tall perennial reedlike grass originally / originally of southeastern Asia |
| Schizachyrium, genus Schizachyrium | Overlaps the genus Andropogon |
| Secale, genus Secale | cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain |
| Setaria, genus Setaria | annual or perennial grasses of warm regions |
| Spartina, genus Spartina | grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands |
| Sporobolus, genus Sporobolus | cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass) |
| Stenotaphrum, genus Stenotaphrum | lawn grasses |
| Triticum, genus Triticum | annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area |
| Zea, genus Zea | Corn |
| Zizania, genus Zizania | wild rice |
| genus Paspalum | A genus of perennial grasses of warm regions |
| genus Sorghum, Sorghum | annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses |
| genus Zoysia, Zoisia, genus Zoisia | lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand |
| gramineous plant, graminaceous plant | cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves |
| meadowgrass, meadow grass | Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture |
| millet | Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine |
| Narrower | Calamagrostis, genus Calamagrostis | reed grass |
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| Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | gramináceas, Gramineae, gramíneas |
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| Catalan | Gramineae, Poaceae |
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