pampas grass

pam·pas grass

(päm′päs, păm′pəz)n. Either of two tall ornamental grasses (Cortaderia selloana or C. jubata) native to South America and naturalized elsewhere, having large feathery inflorescences.

[After the pampa of south-central South America; see pampa.]

pampas grass

(ˈpæmpəs; -pəz) n (Plants) any of various large grasses of the South American genus Cortaderia and related genera, widely cultivated for their large feathery silver-coloured flower branches

pam′pas grass`

n. a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having feathery, silvery white panicles.

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Noun

pampas grass - tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumpsCortaderia selloanagrass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hayCortaderia, genus Cortaderia - tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass

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piuma della pampa

pampas grass

pampas grass,

any species of the genus Cortaderia, tall South American plants of the family Poaceae (grassgrass,
any plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in
..... Click the link for more information. family) cultivated in warm climates for ornament. The common pampas grass (C. argentea or selloana) is a perennial with a cluster of long narrow drooping leaf blades. The male and female flowers are borne on separate plants; the ones which bear the female flowers have large, silvery, plumelike panicles which are sold for decorative purposes. Pampas grass is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Poaceae.

pampas grass

any of various large grasses of the South American genus Cortaderia and related genera, widely cultivated for their large feathery silver-coloured flower branches

pampas grass

pam·pas grass

pampas grass

pam′pas grass`

pampas grass

pampas grass,

pampas grass

pampas grass

Synonyms for pampas grass

noun tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps

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