miscanthus

plural miscanthuses

1. Any of several perennial grasses, of genus Miscanthus, native to subtropical and tropical regions of Africa and southern Asia, varieties of which are cultivated as ornamental plants or are used in agriculture (as a source of biomass for the production of biofuel, as a livestock bedding material, and as a feedstock for bioplastics).

   These miscanthuses are magnificent plants, great green mounds getting taller and taller through the summer and fall,[…].

   2006, James Raimes, Gardening at Ginger: My Seven-Year Obsession with Designing and Planting a Personal Landscape, page 33

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   On the four sides of the box are autumnal plants — asters, patrinias, crawfudias, miscanthuses, eupatoriiuns, platycodons, and chrysanthemums, among which butterflies hover.

   1930, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, volumes 28-32, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, page 23

   Two species, switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) and giant miscanthus (Miscanthus × giganteus), are of interest as dedicated energy crops as both have great biomass production potential.

   2014, D. K. Lee, Allen S. Parrish, Thomas B. Voigt, “Chapter 3: Switchgrass and Giant Miscanthus Agronomy”, in Yogendra Shastri, Alan Hansen, Luis Rodríguez, K.C. Ting, editors, Engineering and Science of Biomass Feedstock Production and Provision, page 37