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para grass

para grass noun: a tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.

Noun (1)

para grass (countable and uncountable, plural para grasses)

  1. A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
  2. A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
  3. An African grass, Urochloa mutica (or Brachiaria mutica), widely introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant, in some areas becoming an invasive weed.
    Synonyms:
    buffalo grass, Mauritius signal grass, pasto pare, malojilla, gramalote, parana, Carib grass, Scotch grass, California grass
  4. piassava fiber.

Noun (2) capitalized: Para grass

Para grass (countable and uncountable, plural Para grasses)

  1. An African grass, Urochloa mutica, used for fodder.

para grass meaning in Tamil

para grass in Tamil

நீரடுப்புல், நீர்ப்புல்

Synonyms of para grass

All synonyms of para grass

Forms of para grass

pluralpara grasses
pluralPara grasses
alternative formPará grass
alternative formpara grass

Origin of para grass

From Pará grass.

From Portuguese Pará.

Questions about para grass

What does para grass mean?
Para grass means a tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
What is para grass in Tamil?
Para grass in Tamil is நீரடுப்புல், நீர்ப்புல். See Para grass meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is para grass?
Para grass is a noun.
What is the plural of para grass?
The plural of para grass is para grasses.

Words near para grass in the dictionary

  1. par-
  2. para
  3. para alpine skiing
  4. para biathlon
  5. Para cress
  6. para grass
  7. para grasses
  8. para hockey
  9. para ice hockey
  10. para nordic
  11. para nordic skiing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: para grass (page history and authors); Para grass (page history and authors); para grass (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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