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para grass en · NOUN

Etymology

From Pará grass.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
  3. (countable, uncountable) An African grass, Urochloa mutica (or Brachiaria mutica), widely introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant, in some areas becoming an invasive weed.
  4. (countable, uncountable) piassava fiber.

Forms

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Synonyms

Scotch grass (Urochloa mutica) · pasto pare (Urochloa mutica) · gramalote (Urochloa mutica) · California grass (Urochloa mutica) · Carib grass (Urochloa mutica) · Mauritius signal grass (Urochloa mutica) · malojilla (Urochloa mutica) · parana (Urochloa mutica) · buffalo grass (Urochloa mutica)