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Pampas grass   /pˈæmpəz græs/   Listen
Pampas grass

noun
1.
Tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps.  Synonym: Cortaderia selloana.






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"Pampas grass" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Landis's? She'd like to bet that the city girl would disdain the dining-room with its haircloth sofa along one wall and its organ in one corner, its quaint, silk-draped mantel where two vases of Pampas grass hobnobbed with an antique pink and white teapot and two pewter plates; its lack of buffet or fashionable china closet, its old, low-backed, cane-seated walnut chairs round a table, long of necessity to hold plates for so ...
— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... bide here," said Dougal, "and no cheep above your breath. Afore we dare to try that wall, I maun ken where Lean and Spittal and Dobson are. I'm off to spy the policies." He glided out of sight behind a clump of pampas grass. ...
— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... their long necks extended far before, and their plumed tails streaming train-like behind them. Possibly they may have been affrighted by the tawny puma, or spotted jaguar, seen skulking through the long pampas grass like gigantic cats. A drove of wild horses, too, may go careering past, with manes and tails showing a wealth of hair which shears have never touched; now galloping up the acclivity of a ridge; anon disappearing over its crest to re-appear on one farther ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid



Words linked to "Pampas grass" :   Cortaderia selloana, genus Cortaderia, grass, Cortaderia



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