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with Anu Garg

gramineous

PRONUNCIATION:

(gruh-MIN-ee-uhs)

MEANING:

adjective: Of or relating to grass.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin gramineus, from gramen (grass).

USAGE:

"Riding in a canoe, the king [Zahir Shah] often fired with his air gun on the sparrows that flew in a flock from gramineous plants, Rauf Liwal added."
Wali Ahmad Zai; Kol Hashmat Khan is No More Splendid Land; Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan); Jul 12, 2006.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

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