| NOUN | plant | Cortaderia, genus Cortaderia | tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea |
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| Meaning | tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass. | |
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| Synonym | genus Cortaderia | |
| Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
| Members | pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana | tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |