pampas grass

  • 1Pampas grass — Pampas Pam pas, n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast grass covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2pampas grass — n [U] a type of tall grass with silver white feathery flowers …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 3pampas grass — ► NOUN ▪ a tall South American grass with silky flowering plumes …

    English terms dictionary

  • 4pampas grass — [pam′pəs] n. a giant South American grass (Cortaderia selloana) cultivated for use as an ornamental and for its large, plumelike, silvery or pinkish panicles used in bouquets …

    English World dictionary

  • 5pampas grass — pampas ,grass noun uncount a plant with very tall stems and long white flowers that look like feathers …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 6pampas grass — noun tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps • Syn: ↑Cortaderia selloana • Hypernyms: ↑grass • Member Holonyms: ↑Cortaderia, ↑genus Cortaderia * * * ˈpampas grass f …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 7pampas grass — a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having large, thick, feathery, silvery white panicles. [1840 50] * * * ▪ plant  (Cortaderia selloana), one of more than 20 species of tall, reedlike Central and South… …

    Universalium

  • 8pampas grass — argentininė kortaderija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Miglinių šeimos dekoratyvinis augalas (Cortaderia selloana), paplitęs Pietų Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Cortaderia selloana angl. pampas grass; pampasgrass vok. Pampasgras rus.… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 9pampas grass — pam′pas grass n. pln a tall, ornamental grass, Cortaderia selloana, native to South America, having feathery, silvery white panicles …

    From formal English to slang

  • 10pampas grass — noun Date: circa 1851 a South American grass (Cortaderia selloana) often grown for ornament that has showy white panicles borne on tall stems …

    New Collegiate Dictionary