different between ornamental vs miscanthus

English

Etymology

ornament +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???n??m?ntl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???n??m?ntl/

Adjective

ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)

1. Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.

   Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
2. (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.

Related terms

• ornamentation
• ornamentally

Translations

Noun

ornamental (plural ornamentals)

1. An ornamental plant.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

ornament +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o?.n?.m?n?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ur.n?.m?n?tal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o?.na.men?tal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ornamental (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ornamental” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Adjective

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais, comparable)

1. ornamental

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French ornemental

Adjective

ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamental?, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)

1. ornamental

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

ornamento +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?namen?tal/, [o?.na.m?n??t?al]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

ornamental (plural ornamentales)

1. ornamental

Related terms

• ornamentación
• ornamentar

Further reading

• “ornamental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From translingual Miscanthus (“genus name”).

Noun

miscanthus (plural miscanthuses)

1. Any of several perennial grasses, of genus Miscanthus, native to subtropical and tropical regions of Africa and southern Asia, which is cultivated as an ornamental plant and is being used as a source of biomass for the production of biofuel.
   • 1930, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Volumes 28-32, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, page 23,

     On the four sides of the box are autumnal plants — asters, patrinias, crawfudias, miscanthuses, eupatoriiuns, platycodons, and chrysanthemums, among which butterflies hover.

   • 2006, James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger: My Seven-Year Obsession with Designing and Planting a Personal Landscape, page 33,

     These miscanthuses are magnificent plants, great green mounds getting taller and taller through the summer and fall, […] .

   • 2014, D. K. Lee, Allen S. Parrish, Thomas B. Voigt, Chapter 3: Switchgrass and Giant Miscanthus Agronomy, Yogendra Shastri, Alan Hansen, Luis Rodríguez, K.C. Ting (editors), Engineering and Science of Biomass Feedstock Production and Provision, page 37,

     Two species, switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) and giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus), are of interest as dedicated energy crops as both have great biomass production potential.

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