Meaning

Of or pertaining to rice-like plants of the Oryzoideae..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to rice-like plants of the Oryzoideae.
2. A grass of the subfamily Oryzoideae.

Example Sentences

The oryzoid grasses were studied by the agrostologist.

The fact that bambusoid and oryzoid grasses share certain anatomical features , such as embryo structure and the presence of fusoid and arm cells in the leaf blade, led some sytematists to include the oryzoid grasses with the Bambusoideae.

Of the smaller groupings in our classification, the oryzoids represent a small series of closely related genera, whose closest affinities may lie with the bamboos.

The Bambusoideae consist of three large groups: the woody bambusoids, represented in our area by tribe Bambuseae Dumor. (including tribe Arundinarieae Ascherson & Graebner); the herbaceous bambusoids, represented by tribes Phareae Stapf and Brachyelytreae Ohwi; and the oryzoids, represented by the Oryzeae Dumort.

Their analyses showed paraphyly for the bambusoid group that was close to oryzoids and pooids.

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• oryzoids

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