brachiaria

English

Noun

brachiaria (uncountable)

1. A grass of the genus Brachiaria.
   • 2011, Advances in Agronomy, volume 91, page 88:

     The brachiaria is made to germinate and emerge later than the maize, either by delaying its planting or by planting it deeper.

   • 2017 July, “Lessons galore in fifth farmers’ clinic”, in Daily Nation‎^[1]:

     The expert said that what a dairy cow needs is Kikuyu grass which has about 22 per cent nutritional value, brachiaria, rhodes or star grass (13 percent), napier grass in that order of nutritional value.

Synonyms

• signalgrass