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pampas grass
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Pampas grass
(gcide) | Pampas \Pam"pas\, n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.]
Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of
the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is
sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the
Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
[1913 Webster]
Pampas cat (Zool.), a South American wild cat ({Felis
pajeros}). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or
brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also
straw cat.
Pampas deer (Zool.), a small, reddish-brown, South American
deer (Cervus campestris syn. Blastocerus campestris).
Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass
(Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle.
It is a native of the pampas of South America.
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pampas grass
(wn) | pampas grass
n 1: tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having
silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps [syn:
pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana] |
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Pampas grass
(gcide) | Pampas \Pam"pas\, n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.]
Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of
the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is
sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the
Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
[1913 Webster]
Pampas cat (Zool.), a South American wild cat ({Felis
pajeros}). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or
brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also
straw cat.
Pampas deer (Zool.), a small, reddish-brown, South American
deer (Cervus campestris syn. Blastocerus campestris).
Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass
(Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle.
It is a native of the pampas of South America.
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