para grasses

Noun

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.

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