Grained

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of grain.
  • adj. Having a grain or grains
  • adj. Stained with an imitation wood grain
  • adj. Having a specified type of grain e.g. close-grained
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough.
  • adj. Dyed in grain; ingrained.
  • adj. Painted or stained in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc.
  • adj. Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rough; roughened.
  • Dyed in grain; ingrained.
  • Painted as having a grain.
  • Formed or divided into grains or small particles.
  • In botany, having grain-like tubercles or prominences, as the sepals in some species of Rumex.
  • Characterized by a fibrous texture or grain.
  • Word Usage
    "Many of the food blogs I read were extolling the delights of Risotto and then the final straw - I was in the supermarket in the grains aisle, my handbag had slipped off my shoulder, I bent down to pick it up and when I stood up I was at eye-level with a row of Arborio rice, one of the main short-grained rice used to make Risotto."
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ingrained   
    Verb Stem
    grain   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Refrained    abstained    arraigned    ascertained    attained    brained    campaigned    caned    chained    complained   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    textured    timbered    veined    laid-out    paneled    coiffed    granular    ferruginous    frescoed    hand-carved