elephant grass

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elephant grass

n
(Plants) any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
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el′ephant grass`


n.
a cattail, Typha elephantina, of S Asia, used for making rope and baskets.
[1825–35]
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The shrine is visible from the Indian side of the border as Pakistani authorities generally trim the tall elephant grass that would otherwise obstruct the view.
Elephant grass, an excellent forage in the tropical and subtropical regions, is the major livestock feed in Vietnam, particularly for cattle, dairy and sheep [1].
The NextFuel briquette, made from fast growing elephant grass on marginal land, favorably competes with the rising cost of oil and the price of coal in most markets.
We collected hogla pata (elephant grass) from the char and made different types of mats and sold those to fishermen.
Rabbits are non-ruminant herbivores, which can be fed on wide range of feeds including grasses: guinea grass and elephant grass.
The trooper was a part of the patrolling unit, which went ahead of the fence for clearing elephant grass when Pakistani rangers started shooting at them.
Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image--of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience--sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive.
There's an old joke about the very short HR tribe, who lived in very tall elephant grass. They moved ahead relentlessly, with rosters for grass cutting and stacking.
Spittlebug nymphs were used to verify resistance induction and were collected from the experimental fields of Embrapa Gado de Leite, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, and maintained on elephant grass in a greenhouse.
The total water depth applied corresponded to 459 mm, which was estimated considering Elephant grass evapotranspiration of 0.85 (Lopes et al., 2003).
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