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lalang|ˈlɑːləŋ|
Also lallang.
[Malay.]
A local name for Imperata cylindrica, a large coarse grass, widespread in tropical countries.
1779T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea ii. iii. 192 The country hereabouts is now covered with long grass, called lalang. 1887H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 158 A shake-down..made up of dried lallang—the thick strong grass of the country. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 93/1 There are waste spaces..covered with coarse lalang grass. 1912Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 98/1 As I stood in the lalang patch..there passed over my head..all the turmoil of a great city. 1918[see blady a.]. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. June 408/2 The manager..contracted with a Chinese to eradicate some four hundred acres of lalang grass on his estate. 1933L. Ainsworth Confessions Planter in Malaya 190 It was decided to tackle all ‘lallang’ land (areas that in the past had been cleared of virgin jungle by the Chinese, but which subsequently had been..allowed to become overgrown with lallang weed). 1969J. M. Gullick Malaysia ii. 67 Lallang is the Malay name for Imperata cylindrica, a coarse grass which grows freely on untended land in Malaya. 1972Malay Mail (Kuala Lumpur) 25 May 6/3 Poisons to kill weeds and lallang..could have been absorbed by the jering tree. |