GRAMINEAE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Gramineae

... Sanguisorba officinalis presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae. Plantains retain their corolla but in a degraded form. Junceae are degraded Lilies; while Cyperaceae and Gramineae among monocotyledons may be ranked with Amentiferae among dicotyledons, as representing orders which have retrograded very far from the entomophilous forms from which they were possibly and ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... The gramineae, or grasses, are especially characterized by the large quantities of sugar and silica they contain. The ash of the rice hull, for example, contains ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various