Lexicographical Neighbors of Padangs
Literary usage of Padangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1857)
"All over the padangs or great grassy plains of this country the Oulin ... In some
places the padangs are covered with trees, which thus look as if they grew ..."
2. All about Coffee by William Harrison Ukers (1922)
"AND STONER and Mexicans; (4) Javas, Sumatras, and padangs; (5) Mocha, and Harari.
It has been found by experience that a good assortment for the average ..."
3. The Achehnese by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Richard James Wilkinson (1906)
"Ownership of the trees etc. planted, exclusive of ownership of the ground, is
not confined to the padangs; it is also to be met with in the case of what are ..."
4. New York's Great Industries: Exchange and Commercial Review, Embracing Also by Richard Edwards (1884)
"The calls on coffee are to be on the basis of Rio Low Ordinary, in Brazils and
in padangs, on Light Brown, known as Padang Standard No. 7. ..."
5. The Fragile Tropics of Latin America by Toshie Nishizawa, Juha I. Uitto (1995)
"In other areas of Asia they are known as padangs. Areas with xeromorphic vegetation
in the humid ... Richards (1952) compared the padangs of Malaysia to ..."
6. Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1896)
"A remarkable feature of both the islands of Banca and Billiton are the tracts
called u padangs." These are flat or very slightly undulating plains, ..."
7. Some Glimpses Into Life in the Far East by John Turnbull Thomson (1865)
"These also were declared four times their previous value; and the merchants and
planters of Penang ransacked the Malay peninsula, its padangs and prairies, ..."
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