miscanthus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several perennial grasses, of genus Miscanthus, native to subtropical and tropical regions of Africa and southern Asia, which is cultivated as an ornamental plant and is being used as a source of biomass for the production of biofuel.

Word forms

miscanthus miscanthuses

Etymology

From translingual Miscanthus (“genus name”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.