Pa*ra" grass` (?). (Bot.)

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

 

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Pará grass.

(a)

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

(b)

Piassaba fiber.

 

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