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Definition of Fountain grass
1. Noun. Tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Genus Pennisetum, Pennisetum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountain Grass
Literary usage of Fountain grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... or CRIMSON fountain grass. GW 13:255. RB 36, p. 58.—A half-hardy form with 2858.
... fountain grass ..."
2. A Manual of Farm Grasses by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1921)
"The leaves are distributed rather evenly along the stem in two distinct rows.
The large panicle is a plume a foot or two long. fountain grass (Pennisetum ..."
3. Proceedings of the Session on Tropical Forestry for People of the Pacific edited by C. Eugene Conrad, Leonard A. Newell (1994)
"Pennisetum setaceum (Gramineae) (fountain grass) fountain grass is a native of
... fountain grass also creates an extreme fire danger; wildfires carried ..."
4. Travels in South Africa: Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society by John Campbell (1816)
"... to a small sequestered valley, where there was a fountain, grass, and abundance
of fire wood. I looked to him, as Elijah may be supposed to have looked ..."
5. Garden Ornaments by Mary Harrod Northend (1916)
"Intermix with this the hardy fountain grass which grows only four feet in height
and has narrow foliage, bright green in coloring, cylindrical flower-heads ..."
6. The Making of a Flower Garden by Ida Dandridge Bennett (1919)
"Like the Erianthus, it shows a silver midrib and a silvery panicle of bloom.
To these may be added the hardy fountain grass— ..."
7. Problems of St. Louis: Being a Description, from the City Planning by Saint Louis (Mo.). City Plan Commission, Harland Bartholomew (1917)
"A circus with central feature visible for a distance along each of the street
approaches, a statue, fountain, grass plot or flower bed, will normally ..."
8. The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat by Peter Tracy Dondlinger (1908)
"When food becomes scarce the locusts migrate, often in a body a mile wide.
From the very first they con- ROCKY fountain grass- 8re%aie and ..."
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