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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pampas grass
pampas grass
n : tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having
silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps [syn:
Cortaderia selloana
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pampas grass
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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
[1913 Webster]