grained

Having a grain or grains.

Adjective

  1. Having a grain or grains.
  2. Stained with an imitation wood grain.
  3. Having a specified type of grain.
    • close-grained
    • long-grained rice

Origin

From grain + -ed. Piecewise doublet of corned.

Hyponyms

close-grained coarse-grained cross-grained fine-grained hard-grained long-grained rough-grained short-grained small-grained

Derived

nanograined ungrained

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of grain