Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Andropogon   Listen
noun
Andropogon  n.  (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 and Andropogon 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, as Andropogon nardus and Andropogon schoenanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Andropogon" Quotes from Famous Books



... forming a fence around the avoided spot, as if they enclosed an area of solid stone. These sunny expanses vary in width from a few yards to many thousands of acres; in the lower ranges of the hills they are covered with tall lemon-grass (Andropogon schoenanthus) of which the oppressive perfume and coarse texture, when full grown, render it distasteful to cattle, which will only crop the delicate braird that springs after the surface has been annually ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent



Words linked to "Andropogon" :   liliopsid genus, genus Andropogon, Andropogon gerardii, monocot genus, Graminaceae, family Poaceae, broom grass, family Gramineae, family Graminaceae, Andropogon virginicus



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com