para grass

See also: Pará grass

English

Etymology

From Pará grass.

Noun

para grass (countable and uncountable, plural para grasses)

1. A tall rather coarse grass (Panicum molle) grown in the tropics for pasturage, and introduced into the southern United States.
2. A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
3. An African grass, Urochloa mutica (or Brachiaria mutica), widely introduced elsewhere as a fodder plant, in some areas becoming an invasive weed.
4. piassava fiber.

Synonyms

• (Urochloa mutica): buffalo grass, Mauritius signal grass, pasto pare, malojilla, gramalote, parana, Carib grass, Scotch grass, California grass

Further reading

• “para grass”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.