para grass
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See also: Pará grass
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Pará grass.
Noun[edit]
para grass (countable and uncountable, plural para grasses)
- A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
- A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
- An African grass, Urochloa mutica (or Brachiaria mutica), widely introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant, in some areas becoming an invasive weed.
- piassava fiber.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Urochloa mutica): buffalo grass, Mauritius signal grass, pasto pare, malojilla, gramalote, parana, Carib grass, Scotch grass, California grass
Further reading[edit]
- “para grass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.