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Definition of Paspalum
1. Noun. Tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States.
Generic synonyms: Grass
Group relationships: Genus Paspalum
Definition of Paspalum
1. Noun. Any member of the genus ''Paspalum'' of tall perennial grasses, the bahiagrasses or Dallis grasses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paspalum
1. a type of pasture grass [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paspalum
Literary usage of Paspalum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"paspalum dilatatum, Poiret. Extra-tropical South America. ... paspalum scrobiculatum,
Linne. Through the tropics of the eastern hemisphere widely dispersed, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"paspalum L. Syst. Ed. io, 2: 855 (1759). 353. paspalum dilatatum Poir. in Lam.
Encycl. 5: 35 (1804). ..."
3. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1904)
"paspalum membranaceum.—a. portion of raceme; c and e, spikelets. ... WALTER'S paspalum.
A low creeping, semi- aquatic grass, with much branched, ..."
4. Publication by Field Columbian Museum (1902)
"80. paspalum COMPRESSUM (Sw.) Nees. Milium Linn. paspalum ... paspalum CONJUGATUM
Berg. P. ciliatum Lam. non HBK Common in wet ditches along roads. ..."
5. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"paspalum L. Syst. Ed. 10, 2: 855 (1759). 253. paspalum dilatatum Poir. in Lam.
Encycl. 5: 35 (1804). paspalum ovatum Nees ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1901)
"paspalum <li st i eli um, L. Jefferson county, H 2469: Madison county, H 2467;
... paspalum vaginatum, Swartz. Indian River, C 3567* in part. 1495. ..."
7. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1906)
"I can also see no reason for retaining paspalum thunbergii Kunth as a distinct
species, assuming that Mez was correct in his identification of some of the ..."
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