Lexic.us

Definition of Pampas grass

1. Noun. Tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pampas Grass

Literary usage of Pampas grass

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"This genus was until 1897 held to include the pampas grass ... Plumes of Pampas Grass are shipped in large quantities from California to Europe, ..."

2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1874)
"It is similar in appearance to the pampas grass, differing, however, in the form of the plumes. It has long, graceful foliage, throwing up flower stems six ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"pampas grass, the most beautiful and the most important commercial ornamental grass (Cortaderia argentea). It is a native not of the pampas of South America ..."

4. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"... sprung up and soil thus collected, I lengthened and broadened the projection aud planted it with clumps of grasses, such as flag, bamboo, pampas grass, ..."

5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1860)
"THE pampas grass. BY TUB EDITOR. No hardy plant, introduced for many years into English gardens has attracted more attention than the pampas grass, ..."

6. Contemporary Verse Anthology: Favorite Poems Selected from the Magazine by Charles Wharton Stork (1920)
"PAMPAS-GRASS THEY had some secret news to tell, The plume-blooms of the pampas-grass, They held me, that I might not pass, With some sun-sweet, ..."

7. California of the South: Its Physical Geography, Climate, Resources, Routes by Walter Lindley, Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1888)
"Rubber-Tree and Pampas-Grass. So great a number of forest and other useful trees are now acclimated in Southern California, that where wood may be grown as ..."

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