para grass

Meaning

Noun

• A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle (species)) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
• A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode (species)) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
• An African grass, Urochloa mutica (species) (or Brachiaria mutica (species)), widely introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant, in some areas becoming an invasive weed.
• piassava fiber.

Related

Similar words

• buffalo grass, Mauritius signal grass, pasto pare, malojilla, gramalote, parana, Carib grass, Scotch grass, California grass

Origin

• From Pará grass