English > Cortaderia: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass. |
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Synonym | genus Cortaderia |
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Member of | Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
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Members | pampas grass, Cortaderia selloana | tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps |
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Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | cortaderia, genus cortaderia |
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Catalan | cortaderia, Cortaderia, genus cortaderia |
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