Definitions for Phragmites

Phragmites phrag·mi·tes

Spelling: [frag-mahy-teez]
IPA: /frægˈmaɪ tiz/

Phragmites is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 1263 anagrams from letters in Phragmites (aeghimprst).

Definitions for Phragmites

noun

  1. any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).

Origin of Phragmites

New Latin (1820) Greek phragmī́tēs growing in hedges, equivalent to phrágm(a) fence, breastwork, screen (noun derivative of phrássein (Attic phráttein) to fence in, hedge around) + -ītēs

Examples for Phragmites

The Papyrus antiquorum, ten feet high, has much the same habit as our phragmites and other water plants.

It feeds from April to June in the stems of reed (phragmites), causing the leaves of the affected stems to whiten.

Dr. William Marshall writes, that it only breeds in certain localities where a large water reed (phragmites arundinacea) abounds.

It feeds on the common reed (phragmites) in the autumn, and hybernates till the following spring, when it resumes its feeding.

Hides by day in the old stems of reed (phragmites), and feeds at night on the leaves, August to October.

Other plants identified on the area were: common reed grass (phragmites communis) and slender grass wort (Salicornia europea).

It feeds from August to October on the leaves of the reed (phragmites), hiding by day in the stems.

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