Meanings
plural pampas grasses
- Any of several species of tall-growing grass:
- countableuncountableCortaderia selloana, including its cultivars.
- countableuncountableCortaderia jubata (Andean pampas grass, purple pampas grass, English pampas grass, pink pampas grass).
- countableuncountableOther species of Cortaderia.
- countableuncountableSaccharum ravennae (syn. Erianthus ravennae) (giant woolly-beard grass, hardy pampas grass, Ravenna grass, ekra).
- countableuncountableMiscanthus sinensis (maiden silvergrass, maiden grass, Chinese silver grass, Korean uksae, susuki grass, Japanese pampas grass, Eulalia grass, zebra grass)
Synonyms & antonyms
nountall perennial grass of Pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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