oryzoid
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]oryzoid (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to rice-like plants of the Oryzoideae.
- The oryzoid grasses were studied by the agrostologist.
- 1995, K. M. Wong, The Morphology, Anatomy, Biology, and Classification of Peninsular Malaysian Bamboos:
- 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.
Noun
[edit]oryzoid (plural oryzoids)
- A grass of the subfamily Oryzoideae.
- 1977, Harold Trevor Clifford, Identifying Grasses: Data, Methods and Illustrations, page 137:
- 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.
- 1988, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, page 240:
- 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.
- 2008, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 47, page 248:
- Their analyses showed paraphyly for the bambusoid group that was close to oryzoids and pooids.