ARUNDO Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the word arundo. (close relations)
Definition of ARUNDO
arundinaceous
Best Alternative Words for ARUNDO
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| cane | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a stick that people can lean on to help them walk • a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane • a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment verb • beat with a cane | ||||||||
| grass | nounn | |||||||
noun • German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) • narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay • a police informer who implicates many people • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle • street names for marijuana verb • shoot down, of birds • cover with grass • spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach • feed with grass • give away information about somebody | ||||||||
| reed | nounn | |||||||
noun • United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920) • tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites • a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it • United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | ||||||||
| stalk | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds • a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ • a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush • the act of following prey stealthily • a stiff or threatening gait verb • walk stiffly • follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to • go through (an area) in search of prey | ||||||||
| stem | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed • a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ • cylinder forming a long narrow part of something • the tube of a tobacco pipe • front part of a vessel or aircraft • a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it verb • grow out of, have roots in, originate in • cause to point inward • stop the flow of a liquid • remove the stem from | ||||||||
| genus arundo | nounn | |||||||
noun • any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds | ||||||||
