Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of grasses, mostly natives of warm countries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including
Andropogon sorghum andAndropogon halepensis , from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, asAndropogon nardus andAndropogon schœnanthus , yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions
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"Andropogon schænanthus" amended to _Andropogon schœnanthus_.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Guiera senegalensis, Acacia spp. and Lannea spp., and grasses such as Andropogon gayanus.
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On the higher zones, the grassland is dominated by grasses, such as Andropogon bicornis, Paspalum laxum, and Sporobolus spp.
Beni savanna 2008
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· Supplement the feed with grasses such as Andropogon annulatus (marvel grass), Panicum isachne and Cynodon dactylon.
Chapter 35 1994
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The savanna grasslands consist mainly of Panicum, Ctenium, Andropogon, Elionurus and Cymbopogon species varied by thickets of Bauhinia, Combretum and Gardenia species.
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Terminalia spp. including T. avicennioides, shea nut Butyrospermum parkii, Uapaca somon, Lophira lanceolata, Protea elliotii, Burkea Africana, the nationally threatened Borassus aethiopum (VU), Mitragyna inermis, Entada abyssinica with a grassy ground cover of Andropogon spp.
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The average annual temperature is between 82° F and 86° F. Today the valley is covered by grasslands for cattle ranching with introduced grass species like Bracchiaria spp. and indigenous grasses as Andropogon spp.
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Exotheca abyssinica, Andropogon amethystinus, and A. kilimandscharicus, with scattered bushes of Adenocarpus mannii, Kotschya recurvifolia and Myrica meyeri-johannis.
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Climax grasses include tall bunch grasses such as sea coast bluestem (Andropogon scoparuium var. littoralis), eastern gamagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides), gulf muhly (Mulenbergia capiallris var. filipes), and several species of panicum.
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Andropogon describes this project as a “working landscape” but we might prefer calling it an “event landscape,” wherein natural processes are co-opted into a cybernetic amalgam of landscape, architecture, geology, biology and institutional pedagogy.
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