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pampas grass

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pam·pas grass  (pmps)
n.
A grass (Cortaderia selloana) of southern South America, having silvery plumes and growing in large clumps more than three meters (ten feet) tall.

[After the Pampas.]

pampas grass [ˈpæmpəs -pəz]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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
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Noun1.pampas grasspampas grass - tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps
grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
Cortaderia, genus Cortaderia - tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass
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pampas grass
nPampasgras nt


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Cold from the spring the waters pass Over the waving pampas grass, All night long in dream I lie, Ah me
He had been before in drawing-rooms hung with red damask, with pictures "of the Italian school"; what struck him was the way in which Medora Manson's shabby hired house, with its blighted background of pampas grass and Rogers statuettes, had, by a turn of the hand, and the skilful use of a few properties, been transformed into something intimate, "foreign," subtly suggestive of old romantic scenes and sentiments.
 
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