Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grasses of the subtribe Stipeæ and the tribe Agrostideæ, known by the rigid obovoid fruit-bearing glume; the mountain-rice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of grasses incluiding rice grass.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rice grass
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Examples
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Threatened species, or those at the limit of their biogeographic range include Stephanomeria runcinata, Atriplex powellii, Orobanche ludoviciana, A. suckleyi, Oryzopsis micrantha, Lupinus pusillus, Plantago elongata, Muhlenbergia racemosa, Erigonium cernuum and Antennaria dimorpha.
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(Oryzopsis hymenoides), purslane (Portulaca), sand dropseed
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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(Agropyron smithii), sacaton (Sporobolus), and sand bunchgrass (Oryzopsis hymenioides).
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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(_a_) grains, contained in their glumes or husks, of some grass, probably _Oryzopsis membranacea_; (_b_) what appears to be the minute spherical spore cases of some microscopical fungus.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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