grāmĭnĕus, a, um, adj. [gramen], of grass, covered with grass, grassy.
I In gen.: campus, Verg. A. 5, 287: palaestrae, id. ib. 6, 642: sedile, id. ib. 8, 176: arae, id. ib. 12, 119: corona obsidionalis, a grass crown presented by those who were delivered from a siege to their deliverer , among the Romans the highest mark of military honor, Liv. 7, 37, 2; cf. Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 6; Gell. 5, 6, 8; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 309.—
II In partic., of Indian reed , bamboo : hasta (Minervae), Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 56, § 125.