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Definition of Manila grass
1. Noun. Lawn grass common in the Philippines; grown also in United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manila Grass
Literary usage of Manila grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harpers̓ Introductory Geography: With Maps and Illustrations Prepared by Harper & Brothers (1878)
"They are extremely fertile, and yield in abundance spices, coffee, rice, tobacco,
sugar, manila grass, and other products of the hot regions. ..."
2. Harper's Introductory Geography (1883)
"They are extremely fertile, and yield in abundance spices, coffee, rice, tobacco,
sugar, manila grass, and other products of the hot regions. ..."
3. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... thereon and fixed with white gins stand on rangi-a of scaffolding in front of
the canvas. Jute and manila grass ..."
4. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S by Edmund Roberts (1837)
"... and is called, in the United States, Manila-grass or hemp; cotton, four thousand
one hundred and ninety-five arrobas; cocoa-nut oil, six thousand, ..."
5. Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes by John Murray Forbes (1899)
"... loading her with goods salable here, perhaps half a cargo of cheap teas for
September, and some manila grass which I should calculate will go off then. ..."
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