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Meaning of "cane grass" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CANE GRASS

cane grass play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANE GRASS

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Cane grass is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CANE GRASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Canegrass

Canegrass, cane-grass or cane grass is a common name which may refer to the following plants in the Poaceae family: ▪ Eragrostis australasica – Swamp Canegrass ▪ Eragrostis infecunda – Southern Canegrass ▪ Zygochloa paradoxa – Sandhill Canegrass...

Definition of cane grass in the English dictionary

The definition of cane grass in the dictionary is any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANE GRASS

cane
cane it
cane piece
cane rat
cane sugar
cane toad
Canea
canebrake
canefruit
canegrub
caneh
canella
canellini
canephor
caner
Canes Venatici
canescence
canescent
Canetti
caneware

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANE GRASS

beargrass
bent grass
Bermuda grass
bluegrass
brass
buffalo grass
cutting grass
get off the grass
grass
Greengrass
Kentucky bluegrass
lemon grass
meadow grass
pampas grass
rye-grass
snake in the grass
supergrass
switchgrass
tallgrass
turfgrass
wheatgrass

Synonyms and antonyms of cane grass in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cane grass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANE GRASS

Find out the translation of cane grass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cane grass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cane grass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

藤草
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caña de hierba
570 millions of speakers

English

cane grass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गन्ना घास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قصب العشب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тростник травы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grama de cana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বনে ঘাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

canne herbe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumput rotan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zuckerrohr Gras
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サトウキビの草
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지팡이 잔디
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Suket tebu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cỏ mía
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கரும்பு புல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेंडी गवत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Baston otu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

canna di erba
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trzciny trawy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

очерет трави
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iarbă trestie de zahăr
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζαχαροκάλαμο γρασίδι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rottang gras
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sockerrör gräs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stokk gress
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cane grass

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANE GRASS»

The term «cane grass» is used very little and occupies the 171.779 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANE GRASS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cane grass

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANE GRASS»

Discover the use of cane grass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cane grass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Grasses of South Australia: An Illustrated Guide to the ...
... lesser 242 canary-grass, paradoxical 243 canary-grass, reed 239 canary-grass , Toowoomba 239 cane spear-grass 70 cane-grass 309, 363 cane-grass, sandhill 497 cane-grass, southern 372 cane-grass, umbrella 386 cane-grass, whorled ...
John Peter Jessop, 2006
2
Cattle Camp: Murrie Drovers and Their Stories
rugged cliff face to the creek, and sought refuge in a thick patch of cane-grass that grew there. When it was discovered that Flick had escaped from the storehouse, the black trackers soon saw that he had been wounded, and they trailed him to ...
Herb Wharton, 2011
3
A Place Against Time: Land and Environment in the Papua New ...
In drier eastern regions, burning is more frequent and destructive, helping maintain a continuous cover of short grasses; it is not necessarily more mature than a cane grass cover nor an indication of earlier settlement and longer disturbance ...
Paul Sillitoe, 2013
4
Managing Animals in New Guinea: Preying the Game in the ...
A tiny 'palm-sized' bird. Plumage variable. Chestnut-brown upperparts with white underparts, orangish tail and black head. Chunky pale grey beak. 'Builds “roofed” nest of grass with side entrance hole in cane grass clumps.' Eats grass seeds.
Paul Sillitoe, 2004
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Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field
Most times, blood instantly flows following that action, profusely so in some cases The cane-grass technique was used in the first-stage and third-stage collective initiations by all the Sambia groups in which I observed nosebleed- ing.
Gilbert Herdt, 1999
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Survival Skills of Native California
On inquiry, he found that the strange sugary food came from cane grass that grew along the river, the same cane grass from which the Mohave Indians made arrows. Lieutenant Robert S. Williamson (Brooks, 1977) reported cane growing in  ...
Paul Douglas Campbell, 1999
7
Paddy Cahill of Oenpelli
I saw a smoke start up in some long cane grass and going up towards the smoke, I saw a native away out in the swamp and fired a shot off to attract his attention. I had a rifle with me, so fired a shot at a lot of geese, almost at right angles to ...
Derek John Mulvaney, 2004
8
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture
The cane-grass technique was used in the first-stage and third-stage collective initiations by all the Sambia groups in which I observed nosebleeding. That practice is regarded as more dangerous than the water technique, largely due to men's ...
Robert A. LeVine, 2010
9
They Married Adventure: The Wandering Lives of Martin and ...
He touched her cheeks, rubbed the skin of her arm with cane grass, pinched and probed her, and pulled her hair.17 Nihapat's release of Osa was sudden and unexpected. He shouted to the scores of men peering through the cane grass, and ...
Pascal James Imperato, Eleanor M. Imperato, 1992
10
Finding Birds in Australia's Northern Territory
After the floodout country the road passes through good sand dune country covered with spinifex and Sandhill Cane-grass. The cane-grass is easily recognisable as a wiry mass of stems that grow into large round clumps. Eyrean Grasswrens ...
D Donato, P Wilkins, G Smith, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANE GRASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cane grass is used in the context of the following news items.
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THE HOYOS FILE: Has Government reached another 'tipping' point?
This plant will use bagasse, river tamarind and cane grass as fuel, and is expected to be in service by 2017, at a cost, I understand, of about ... «Nation News, May 15»
2
Lake Tyler bass fishing starting slow again this year
I was throwing into the cane grass. It has holes in it. That is where they are,” Tipton said. He said the water was muddy and that neither he nor ... «Tyler Morning Telegraph, Mar 15»
3
The flavour of the bassoon: NACO presents new music for a new year
The instrument takes a double reed made from a giant cane grass known as arundo donax. Millard, like any accomplished bassoonist, makes ... «Ottawa Citizen, Dec 14»
4
AMD Integrates X86, GPU & I/O
Carrizo Springs is a city in Dimmit County, Texas, about midway between Laredo and San Antonio, named by the Spanish for the cane grass ... «EE Times, Nov 14»
5
Hilton Head Island resident on tour of Australian Outback finds out …
... into his sleeping bag post-bathing, which is why he was sans clothes when he awoke around 2 a.m. to the sound of cane grass snapping. «Hilton Head Island Packet, Oct 14»
6
Brush Fire Burns Open Field Near Old Cemetery in Kūʻau
Fire officials say crews arrived on scene to find an area of cane grass and light shrub brush burning in an open field. The brush fire burned an ... «Maui Now, Sep 14»
7
Behind Miami's Farm-to-Table Craze
... the director of the farm's community outreach. The base was downsized, and the land sat for 20 years, overgrown with 10-foot-tall cane grass. «Ocean Drive Magazine, Jun 14»
8
Kimberley racers return to red dust
As the huge wall of flames approached, the group ran over rocky ground, through metre-high cane grass and up the steep ridge of the gorge, ... «The West Australian, May 14»
9
High grass a headache for Southwest Florida
The highest grass he's cut for the county is cane grass, which can get about six feet tall and is usually found in fenced back yards, he said. «The News-Press, Apr 14»
10
Cleanup, planting honor Scouting founder
The boys are members of Wailuku Elementary School Cub Scout Pack 68, which cut back 9-foot-high cane grass around graves at the ... «Maui News, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cane grass [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cane-grass>. May 2024 ».
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