Meanings of Gramineae in English

It is apparently effective only on the family Gramineae, producing a constitutional metabolic change.

Zea mays (Gramineae).- Asingleplant in the greenhouse produced a good many grains.

Something of the same kind occurs with certain Gramineae.

The most remarkable feature here is the class of Liorhizal Dicotyledons, which includes only the families of Nymphaeaceae and Gramineae.

Hildebrand has insisted strongly to this effect in his valuable observations on the fertilisation of the Gramineae: 'Monatsbericht K. Akad.

You and Bentham must hate the monocotyledons, for what work the Orchideae must have been, and Gramineae and Cyperaceae will be.

This gene organization resembles Gramineae genome sequences, where genes are clustered in gene-rich regions separated by gene-poor DNA containing abundant transposons.

The Gramineae offer a prominent example of a dominant self-pollinated or wind-pollinated family, and this may find explanation in a multiplicity of factors.

In the Gramineae the summit of the straight, sheath-like cotyledon is developed into a hard sharp crest, which evidently serves for breaking through the earth.

The sheath-like cotyledons of the Gramineae circumnutate, that is, move to all sides, as plainly as do the hypocotyls or epicotyls of any dicotyledonous plants.

Strephium floribundum* (Gramineae).-Theoval leaves are provided with a pulvinus, and are extended horizontally or declined a little beneath the horizon during the day.

All the cereals belong to the family of the Grasses (Gramineae), and each of them, doubtless, is the last of a series of antecedent forms.

The gramineæ, or grasses, are especially characterized by the large quantities of sugar and silica they contain.