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FAMILY POACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
Synonyms:
family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Poaceae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "family Poaceae"):
genus Hordeum; Hordeum (annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley)
genus Leymus; Leymus (genus that in some classifications overlaps the genus Elymus)
genus Lolium; Lolium (darnel; ryegrass)
genus Muhlenbergia; Muhlenbergia (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia)
genus Oryza; Oryza (rice)
genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)
genus Panicum; Panicum (panic grass)
genus Paspalum (a genus of perennial grasses of warm regions)
genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)
genus Phalaris; Phalaris (a genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers)
genus Phleum; Phleum (grasses native to temperate regions)
genus Phragmites; Phragmites (reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions)
genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)
meadow grass; meadowgrass (any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture)
genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)
genus Schizachyrium; Schizachyrium (overlaps the genus Andropogon)
genus Secale; Secale (cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye)
genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)
millet (any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine)
genus Sorghum; Sorghum (annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum)
genus Spartina; Spartina (grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands)
genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))
genus Stenotaphrum; Stenotaphrum (lawn grasses)
genus Triticum; Triticum (annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions)
genus Zea; Zea (corn)
genus Zizania; Zizania (wild rice)
genus Zoisia; genus Zoysia; Zoisia (lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand; grown especially in warm regions)
Bambuseae; tribe Bambuseae (bamboos)
graminaceous plant; gramineous plant (cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves)
Aegilops; genus Aegilops (goat grass)
Agropyron; genus Agropyron (perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass)
Agrostis; genus Agrostis (annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland))
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; warm regions)
Arrhenatherum; genus Arrhenatherum (oat grass)
Arundo; genus Arundo (any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds)
Avena; genus Avena (oats)
Bromus; genus Bromus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae)
Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua (forage grasses)
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: finger grass; windmill grass)
Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia (tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass)
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; finger 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)
genus Glyceria; Glyceria (manna grass)
genus Holcus; Holcus (a genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family Poaceae"):
Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis (reed grass)
Holonyms ("family Poaceae" is a member of...):
Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)
