paspalum
See also: Paspalum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Paspalum (genus name), from Koine Greek πάσπαλος (páspalos, “type of millet”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paspalum (plural paspalums)
- Any member of the genus Paspalum of tall perennial grasses, the bahiagrasses or Dallis grasses. [from 18th c.]
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 249:
- We returned to the crossing, passing slowly through the high rusty stands of dock weeds and the fleshy beds of dense paspalum.
- 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 61:
- The paspalum blades they had walked over were mostly intact, green leaves with near-invisible lines of teeny tiny veins running the length of them, delivering food and water, same as veins did for a person.