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Noun: Poaceae
  1. The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
    - Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, family Poaceae, grass family

Type of: liliopsid family, monocot family

Part of: Graminales, order Graminales

Encyclopedia: Poaceae