Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the flowering plants. Plants of this family are usually called grasses. There are about 600 genera and between 9,000-10,000 species of grasses (Kew Index of World Grass Species). Plant communities dominated by Poaceae are called grasslands; it is estimated that grasslands comprise 20% of the vegetation cover of the earth. This family is the most important of all plant families to human economies: it includes the staple food grains grown around the world, lawn and forage grasses, and bamboo, widely used for construction throughout Asia.
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Noun
1. the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
(synonym) Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, family Poaceae, grass family
(hypernym) monocot family, liliopsid family
(hyponym) Calamagrostis, genus Calamagrostis
(member-holonym) Graminales, order Graminales
(member-meronym) gramineous plant, graminaceous plant