Noun: Poaceae
- The grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals, bamboo, reeds, sugar cane
"The Poaceae includes many of the world's most important food crops";
- Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, family Poaceae, grass family
Type of: liliopsid family, monocot family
Part of: Graminales, order Graminales
Encyclopedia: Poaceae