Definition of Padangs

1. padang [n] - See also: padang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Padangs

pacts
pactum
pactum de non petendo
pacu
pacus
pacy
paczki
paczkis
pad
pad down
pad of paper
pad out
pad stitch
pad thai
padang
padangs (current term)
padauk
padauks
padawan
padawans
paddability
padded
padder
padders
paddies
padding
paddings
paddlane
paddlanes
paddle

Literary usage of Padangs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1857)
"All over the padangs or great grassy plains of this country the Oulin ... In some places the padangs are covered with trees, which thus look as if they grew ..."

2. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"AND STONER and Mexicans; (4) Javas, Sumatras, and padangs; (5) Mocha, and Harari. It has been found by experience that a good assortment for the average ..."

3. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"Ownership of the trees etc. planted, exclusive of ownership of the ground, is not confined to the padangs; it is also to be met with in the case of what are ..."

4. New York's Great Industries: Exchange and Commercial Review, Embracing Also by Richard Edwards (1884)
"The calls on coffee are to be on the basis of Rio Low Ordinary, in Brazils and in padangs, on Light Brown, known as Padang Standard No. 7. ..."

5. The Fragile Tropics of Latin America by Toshie Nishizawa, Juha I. Uitto (1995)
"In other areas of Asia they are known as padangs. Areas with xeromorphic vegetation in the humid ... Richards (1952) compared the padangs of Malaysia to ..."

6. Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1896)
"A remarkable feature of both the islands of Banca and Billiton are the tracts called u padangs." These are flat or very slightly undulating plains, ..."

7. Some Glimpses Into Life in the Far East by John Turnbull Thomson (1865)
"These also were declared four times their previous value; and the merchants and planters of Penang ransacked the Malay peninsula, its padangs and prairies, ..."

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