awara

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English awara, from Lokono awara.

The food found in its stomach was the seed of the awarra, a species of palm (Aristocaryon spec?)

1841, Robert H[ermann] Schomburgk, “Banded Schizodon. Schizodon fasciatus, Agas.”, in William Jardine, editor, Fishes of Guiana. Part I (The Naturalist’s Library, Ichthyology; III), Edinburgh: W[illiam] H[ome] Lizars, […]; London: S. Highley, […], →OCLC, page 253:

The Ita palm supplies the drink called Belteerie; of the fruit of the Tooroo palm a drink resembling chocolate is made; the Awara palm also yields a drink; the Guava, Souari, and tamarind.

1857, J. O. Bagdon, “Vegetable Products”, in Guiana: Geographical and Historical. […], Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana: R. Short, →OCLC, pages 16–17:

Handsome bracelets and rings are carved out of the nut of the Awara palm (Astrocaryum Awara); it is black, very hard, and bears a high polish.

1871 September 1, “International Exhibition. The French Pictures.”, in The Art-Journal, volume X (New Series; volume XXXIII overall), London: Virtue & Co., →OCLC, page 220, column 1:

Oil of the awara palm. This palm is very common on the coast of French Guiana; the fruit grows to a fine bunch, and ripens and falls between February and April. It is one of the most useful of trees, for every particle of it is utilized.

1876 June, “France. Cayenne. Report by Consul Wooldridge on the Trade and Commerce of French Guiana for the Year 1875.”, in Reports from Her Majesty’s Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c., of Their Consular Districts. Part IV. […] (Accounts and Papers; 34 (Commercial Reports—continued)), volume LXXV, London: Harrison and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 850, column 1:

The five principal palms of the British Guiana rivers are the trooly, the aeta, the cocorite, the manicole, and the awarra, and all these grow in the greatest profusion on the banks of the Berbice.

1885, The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume XXVIII, London: Gardeners’ Magazine Office, →OCLC, page 642:

Above Ahwiemah, and upwards until the sandy ridges in the neighbourhood of Youacourie creek are met with, the district is almost a continuous swamp, in which the prickly awarra palms (Astrocaryum) luxuriate and in some places completely line the riverside.

1890 June, [J. J. Quelch], “On the Upper Berbice River”, in J. J. Quelch, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume IV (New Series), part I, Demerara: J. Thomson, […]; London: E[dward] Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 317:

An Amerindian informant living in the area stated that it fed on fruits of the Awarra Palm Astrocaryum tucumoides and the Cuyuru Palm A. tucuma.

1976 June 18, E. McLoughlin, P. J. K. Burton, “Notes on the Hawk-headed Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus”, in J. F. Monk, editor, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, volume 96, number 2, London: British Ornithologists’ Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:

At dawn the beautiful wife asked Bási Kodjó to go off to the forest with her to collect awara palm seeds. [...] Bási Kodjó climbed the awara tree and began picking fruit. Suddenly the woman turned back into her natural form, a Bush Cow, and called out to her relatives. [...] Bási Kodjó had turned himself into a tiny awara palm thorn and hidden by sticking himself into a leaf.

1991, Richard Price, Sally Price, “Introduction: Collective Fabulation”, in Two Evenings in Saramaka, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 18:

This owl nests mostly in cavities in trees. On 23 June 2006, a nest was discovered at Awala-Yalimapo [...]. The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheaded awara palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare. The palm tree with a height of c. 5 m and a diameter of c. 15 cm stood in the middle of a small group of bushes, low trees and awara palms next to the parking of the primary school.

2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor, Neotropical Owls: Diversity and Conservation, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 426:

(Guyana, chiefly attributively) The palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare which is native to the Amazon Rainforest region.


heliconian

Any plant of the genus Heliconia, called lobster claws, toucan beaks, wild plantain, or false birds of paradise.


eulalia

From the genus name, Eulalia, named for French artist Eulalie Delile.

Miscanthus sinensis
Miscanthus sinensis#Translingual

Dwarf maiden grass, of species Miscanthus sinensis (syn. Eulalia japonica), used ornamentally.


clubgrass

Several sedges in Scirpus and related genera.


peewah

Borrowed from Trinidadian Creole English peewa, peewah, from Spanish pijguao (Latin America), possibly from Quechua [Term?]. The English word is cognate with Spanish pifá, pivá (Panama), pijuayo (Peru).

The Pewa or Peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) was introduced from Trinidad, and seedlings raised for distribution. The fruits when boiled in water with salt are appreciated as a food.

1910, Department of Agriculture, Legislative Council, Trinidad and Tobago, [Council Paper], Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Government Printer, →OCLC, page 16:

This Guilielma [the peach palm or pejibaye (Guilielma gasipaes)] is prized in Trinidad, as well as elsewhere, for its edible fruits; by the natives I have heard it called piliwa and piwa.

[1947 December 27, L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Indigenous Palms of Trinidad and Tobago (Gentes Herbarum: Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants), volume VII, fascicle IV, Ithaca, N.Y.: Bailey Hortorium of The New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, →OCLC, page 353:

Nonconventional sources with development potential include: [...] wild plants such as gru gru, pewa (peach nut), many weeds and, possibly, the seeds of seaside grapes, fat pork, etc.

1984, Jeffrey W. Dellimore, Judy A. Whitehead, Secondary Agrobased Industries: ECCM and Barbados (Caribbean Technology Policy Studies Project; 90), Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, →OCLC, page 79:

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

A peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a South American palm tree.


kans grass

Saccharum spontaneum
Saccharum spontaneum#Translingual

Saccharum spontaneum, a tall perennial grass native to the Indian subcontinent, with spreading rhizomatous roots.


chip hat

A cheap kind of hat, formerly made of strips of wood, the leaves of a Cuban palm tree (probably Leucothrinax morrisii), or of straw.


elaichi

en-noun

elaichi (countable and uncountable, plural elaichis)

From Hindustani الائچی / इलायची (ilāycī).


vernalgrass

vernalgrass (countable and uncountable, plural vernalgrasses)


finger grass

finger grass (countable and uncountable, plural finger grasses)

Digitaria sanguinalis
Digitaria sanguinalis#Translingual

Any of the species of the genus Digitaria, especially, Digitaria sanguinalis, typical crabgrass.

Any of the species of the genus Chloris of windmill grasses.

Eleusine indica
Eleusine indica#Translingual

Eleusine indica; yard grass, goosegrass.


babala

(South Africa) Any of several cultivated species of grass in the genus Pennisetum.


nutrush

Any of the genus Scleria of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.


bambusoid

Any bamboo of the subfamily Bambusoideae


nimblewill

A slender North American grass (Muhlenbergia sylvatica or Muhlenbergia schreberi). It is often used for grazing


black oat

The grass Avena strigosa
The edible seeds of the grass


hemp palm

Trachycarpus fortunei, a fan palm, the fibre of whose leaves was traditionally used to make clothing.


sheepgrass

sheepgrass (countable and uncountable, plural sheepgrasses)


corn silk

Alternative form of cornsilk (a colour of yellow that is like that of these fibres)


giant cane

Certain large cane plants, similar in appearance, in family Poaceae.

Arundo donax, usually called giant reed, of the Mediterranean and vicinity.


cornfest

Greater sandhill cranes take wing after a cornfest near the Rio Grande.

1982, America's Wildlife Sampler, page 138:

The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection.

1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience:

(US) A festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.


windgrass

(Lachnagrostis) A common slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground, or around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins and coastal areas.


signalgrass

signalgrass (countable and uncountable, plural signalgrasses)


guinea grains

guinea grains pl (normally plural, singular guinea grain)

From its native range in West Africa, formerly generally known as Guinea, q.v.

The tooth is plugged with a pounded mixture of the root of the lime tree and Guinea grains.

1904, Journal of the African Society, number 3, page 374:

grains of paradise
grains of paradise#English


wintergrass

wintergrass (countable and uncountable, plural wintergrasses)


tussock grass

tussock grass (countable and uncountable, plural tussock grasses)

A large grass native to the Falkland Islands, Poa flabellata, and remarkable for forming great tufts.


wild foxtail millet

Setaria viridis
Setaria viridis#Translingual

Setaria italica
Setaria italica#Translingual

Setaria viridis, closely related to the cereal crop foxtail millet (Setaria italica).


giant reed

giant reed (countable and uncountable, plural giant reeds)

Arundo donax, native to the Mediterranean.


nipa grass

Nipa grass is another promising native crop once thought to be extinct. It was recently rediscovered in Mexico, and now being cultivated again for its grain.

2015 March 13, Avelino Maestas, “Area residents attend NM Small Farm Conference”, in Silver City Daily Press, archived from the original on 2015-08-14:

In the 1970s, Nipa grass was thought to be extinct; it was then rediscovered by University of AZ researchers.

2018 Spring, “The beginning of the end”, in Wellspring newsletter (pdf), archived from the original on 2021-10-19:

Distichlis palmeri, a saltgrass native to the Sonoran Desert of Mexico and the United States, also known as Palmer's grass.


sedge grass

sedge grass (countable and uncountable, plural sedge grasses)


Japanese stiltgrass

Japanese stiltgrass (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese stiltgrasses)

Stiltgrass, an annual grass of species Microstegium vimineum, native to East Asia, often considered invasive.


deer's hair

A kind of grass, the heath club-rush, Trichophorum cespitosum.


deer's grass

A kind of sedge, the heath club-rush, Trichophorum cespitosum.


monkey grass

monkey grass (countable and uncountable, plural monkey grasses)

Any of various plants in the genus Liriope.


paper reed

Cyperus papyrus
Cyperus papyrus#Translingual

Cyperus papyrus, an aquatic flowering plant of the sedge family, papyrus.


Manila grass

Manila grass (countable and uncountable, plural Manila grasses)

A perennial grass, Zoysia matrella, native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia


dog grass

Elymus repens
Elymus repens#Translingual

Elymus repens, a coarse perennial grass common in uncultivated grounds


traveller's tree

traveller's tree (plural traveller's trees)

traveller's palm
traveller's palm#English


sabaigrass

sabaigrass (countable and uncountable, plural sabaigrasses)

The Asiatic perennial grass Eulaliopsis binata


hippo grass

hippo grass (countable and uncountable, plural hippo grasses)

Either of the plants Echinochloa stagnina or Vossia cuspidata.


lawyer vine

When we got there, Chillagoe turned out to be a single chimneystack sticking up out of acres of ruins under waist-high lawyer vines.

2005, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 75:

(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various chiefly climbing plants of coastal Australia, especially of the genus Calamus, with strong curved hooks.


Thurber's needlegrass

Achnatherum thurberianum, a species of grass native to the western United States.


broadleaf bamboo

Synonym of bamboo grass (running bamboo in the genus Sasa, especially when referring to Sasa palmata)


bamboo grass

A kind of running bamboo, native to East Asia, in the genus Sasa.


sour corn

sour (“tart”) + corn, possibly influenced by the first element of German saure Bohnen (literally “sour beans”) and Sauerkraut (“sauerkraut”).

cog

"I always thought that sour corn was the European tradition of sour cabbage brought over and applied to local ingredients," explains April. But after talking to a Cherokee folklorist, she came to understand "that sour corn was already a Native American tradition that Europeans raised on sour cabbage had a taste for."

2012, Sandor Ellix Katz, The Art of Fermentation: An In-depth Exploration of Essential Concepts, page 215:

Appalachian Sour Corn […] Saure Bohnen translates to “sourbeans” and is a traditional German dish. […] [S]ettlers from the Palatinate region who brought the practice to Appalachia were fermenting green beans in large crocks to be consumed through the winter. Think sauerkraut, only with green beans. And since that method is so adaptable, they quickly adapted it to fresh corn. […] The sugar and starch give sour corn a rounder, fuller presence in the mouth, […]

2016, Ronni Lundy, Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 118:

Sour corn could always be found in one of those mysterious crocks that sat in the dark and musky basement at my grandma's house.

2019, Sean Brock, South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations, page 272:

Southern United States
Southern United States

Lactofermented pickled corn, a dish eaten in the Southern United States, especially in Appalachia.


shattercane

en-noun

shattercane (countable and uncountable, plural shattercanes)


kakaho

Directly the kakahos were laden they poled away, whilst the lady heard the name of Tu-rere-ao constantly repeated by the people, so that she felt sure it was really Tu-rere-ao ; and her heart felt glad as they poled away from the camp at Te One-heke, which is situated at the seaward end of the present town of Whanganui.

1896, The Journal of the Polynesian Society - Volume 5, page 157:

By 5.30 pm Sunday afternoon, the bundles of kiekie were hanging to dry in the wharekai, beside the kakaho.

2007, Dean Sully, Decolonizing Conservation: Caring For Maori Meeting Houses Outside New Zealand, page 82:

The chief Tohunga performed ceremonies over the pou-toko-manawa or centre post, and when the kakaho reeds forming the patterned walls were laced in position, karakia were repeated.

2011, Makereti Papakura, The Old-Time Maori:

A reed (Chionochloa conspicua), native to New Zealand.


rush nut

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

The plant Cyperus esculentus, having edible tubers.


hymenachne

Any wetland grass of the genus Hymenachne


sweet vernal grass

sweet vernal grass (countable and uncountable, plural sweet vernal grasses)

Anthoxanthum odoratum
Anthoxanthum odoratum#Translingual

A perennial grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum, used as forage


sand palm

Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:

(Australia) A small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.


Kentucky bluegrass

Kentucky bluegrass (countable and uncountable, plural Kentucky bluegrasses)

The grass is commonly found in Kentucky, particularly in its Bluegrass region.

Poa pratensis
Poa pratensis#Translingual

Poa pratensis; a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco, and, while not native to North America, found across humid regions of the United States.


woolsedge

woolsedge (usually uncountable, plural woolsedgees)

Any of several species of Scirpus related to Scirpus cyperinus with perianth bristles giving a wooly appearance.


bushman grass

(now sometimes offensive) Any of the species of the grass genus Aristida sensu lato growing in southern Africa.


daba grass

From Xhosa idobo (“long, coarse grass”).

Miscanthus capensis, a long African grass used as thatch.


dronkgras

(South Africa) A plant poisonous to livestock, including:


mabele

Locusts do not touch mabele, and therefore there is no excuse for not putting in more.

1901 April 26, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 102:

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual


Hall's panicgrass

Named for Elihu Hall, American botanist.

Panicum hallii, a perennial bunch grass native to the south/southwestern United States and parts of Mexico.


deertongue

Dichanthelium clandestinum, a grass native to eastern North America.


water couch

Where at one time might be seen waving fields of rye-grass, cocksfoot, and clovers, are now growing the unsightly and undesirable tussocks, and the low-lying fields are covered in many cases with what is commonly called water-couch or swamp grass.

1901 May 10, “Paspalum Dilatatum”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 153:

Paspalum distichum, a weedy perennial grass of wet areas.


canary seed

The seed of canary grass, used to feed birds.


cusa grass

Sir W. Jones and Mr. Wilford inform us, that Cusa''' grass is of the genus named Poa by Linnaeus: that the brahmins say this grass derived its sanctity and appellation from Cush, the progenitor of a great Indian family; and some say it grew round the body of Cush himself, or of his son Cusicha, when performing his Tapasya, or act of austere devotion.

1804, chapter VII, in Collectanea de rebus hibernicis, volume 6, page 238:


midge grass

The species of grass and other plants that are most affected are […] midge grass (Holcus lanatus) […]

1894, “Charæas graminis in Southern Scotland”, in The Entomologist, volume 27, page 280:


wood sedge

wood sedge (countable and uncountable, plural wood sedges)

Any of several species of sedges (Carex spp.).

(UK) European woodland sedge (Carex sylvatica)


corn pudding

corn pudding (countable and uncountable, plural corn puddings)

(US) A creamy food made chiefly from stewed corn.


silvergrass

At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:

(Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides.


halfa grass

halfa grass (countable and uncountable, plural halfa grasses)

Imperata cylindrica
Imperata cylindrica#Translingual

Other north African grasses with similar uses, such as sparto (Stipa tenacissima and Lygeum sparticum) and cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica)


tall reed

tall reed (countable and uncountable, plural tall reeds)

A tall species of reed, Phragmites karka, native to tropical Africa, Asia, and Australasia.


tropical reed

tropical reed (countable and uncountable, plural tropical reeds)


white corn

white corn (countable and uncountable, plural white corns)

Any of several varieties of sweet corn maize, typically sweeter and more suitable for bread-making than yellow corn.


Buddha belly bamboo

Buddha belly bamboo (usually uncountable, plural Buddha belly bamboos)

Bambusa vulgaris
Bambusa vulgaris#Translingual

Cultivated varieties of either of two species of bamboo, Bambusa tuldoides and Bambusa vulgaris, with swollen internodes that look like a human torso with a fat belly when the plants are grown in pots.


golden bamboo

golden bamboo (usually uncountable, plural golden bamboos)

Cultivated varieties of a Southeast Asian species of bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris), that also have golden-yellow stems.


hill cane

hill cane (usually uncountable, plural hill canes)

A species of short bamboo native to the Appalachian mountains and Piedmont in the southeastern United States, Arundinaria appalachiana.


common bamboo

common bamboo (usually uncountable, plural common bamboos)

A widespread tropical bamboo from Southeast Asia (Bambusa vulgaris).


moso bamboo

moso bamboo (usually uncountable, plural moso bamboos)

From Japanese 孟宗竹 (mōsōchiku) from Chinese 孟宗竹 (mèngzōngzhú) or Chinese 毛竹 (máozhú)

A species of bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) native to China, naturalized in Japan and other countries


tortoise-shell bamboo

tortoise-shell bamboo (usually uncountable, plural tortoise-shell bamboos)

From tortoiseshell + bamboo (from the appearance of the stems).


alkaligrass

alkaligrass (usually uncountable, plural alkaligrasses)


jacitara palm

From Portuguese jacitara, from the name of the plant in Tupi-Guarani.

Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A spiny, climbing palm, Desmoncus polyacanthos, native to the southern Caribbean and tropical South America.


phoenix palm

The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.


vegetable ivory tree

vegetable ivory tree (plural vegetable ivory trees)

The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.

A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.


nipa palm

nipa palm (countable and uncountable, plural nipa palms)

Nypa fruticans
Nypa fruticans#Translingual


meadow foxtail

meadow foxtail (countable and uncountable, plural meadow foxtails)

If I give my imagination free rein on this sultry afternoon, I could almost believe this shoulder-high grassland – a shimmering sea of false oat, cock’s-foot and meadow foxtail – is African savanna.

2021 July 21, Phil Gates, “Country diary: this forgotten grassland is a butterfly Serengeti”, in The Guardian:

A common perennial grass, Alopecurus pratensis, of temperate Eurasia; grown widely for fodder and hence introduced to North America, Australia and New Zealand.


rontal

From Old Javanese [script needed] (rontal): ron "leaf" + tal "palm".

Borassus flabellifer
Borassus flabellifer#Translingual

A type of palm tree, Borassus flabellifer.


flaming sword

Acala
East Asian Buddhism
Flaming sword (mythology)
Khön clan of Sakya

The flowering plants Lutheria splendens (syn. Vriesea splendens), Vriesea flammea, and other species, especially in the tribe Vrieseeae, with similar blooms.


Gros Michel

A triploid cultivar of banana, popular in the early 20th century, predominant in the marketplace, but wiped out as a commercial cultivar mid-20th century by Panama disease.


Big Mike

Calque of French Gros Michel; from gros (“big”) + Michel (“Michael”)


broadleaf carpet grass

Grass of species Axonopus compressus, native to the tropics and subtropics of North America, but now widespread throughout the tropics worldwide.


tall fescue

Festuca arundinacea, a species of bunchgrass native to Europe.


grugru nut

(Caribbean) The edible kernel from the fruit of the grugru palm, Acrocomia aculeata


fishtail palm

Any palm in the genus Caryota; their leaflets are reminiscent of the tail-fins of a fish.


parlor palm

(US) A small palm tree often grown indoors, Chamaedorea elegans


kamish

Phragmites communis
Phragmites communis#Translingual


Vasey grass

A species of grass, Paspalum urvillei, native to South America and now widely introduced elsewhere.


metake

A tall slender Japanese bamboo, Pseudosasa japonica


geonoma

Any of the understory palm trees of the genus Geonoma.


madake

Timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides)


guapilla

The American bromeliad Hechtia glomerata.


chaguar

Borrowed from Quechua ch'awar via Spanish Spanish chaguar.

Any of several related species of South American plants of the family Bromeliaceae, among them Bromelia serra, Bromelia hieronymi, Deinacanthon urbanianum and Pseudananas sagenarius.


California fan palm

California fan palm (plural California fan palms)

A palm tree native to spring-fed water sources in the deserts of southern California and neighboring Baja California, Washingtonia filifera

a related species from Mexico which is more common in cultivation


Mexican fan palm

Mexican fan palm (plural Mexican fan palms)

A palm tree, Washingtonia robusta, native to northwestern Mexico but cultivated throughout the warmer parts of the world.


cadjan

cadjan (countable and uncountable, plural cadjans)

A woven mat of leaves of the coconut palm, traditionally used for roofing and walls in Asia.


queen of spices

Coordinate term: king of spices


smutgrass

(botany) A grass, Sporobolus indicus, native to the West Indies and also common in the Southern United States.


fimbry

Any of various sedges of the genus Fimbristylis.


claspbract sedge

claspbract sedge (countable and uncountable, plural claspbract sedges)

Carex amplectens, a species of sedge plant.


black oat grass

black oat grass (countable and uncountable, plural black oat grasses)

Piptochaetium avenaceum, a species of bunchgrass.


frankencorn

From franken- + corn, on analogy with frankenfood.

New Contraceptive Frankencorn Being Tested
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,548964,00.html
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed

2001 September 18, Chive Mynde, “Contraceptive Frankencorn Being Tested”, in talk.environment (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Did everybody hear about the illegal Frankencorn that escaped, ran amuck in the USA, and ruined much of last year's crop? No? Can you say; hushed-up?

2002 February 20, Doug Bashford, “BioPiracy, Genitec engieering, Frankenfoods, Trickery, and Slavery”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Oh, and genetically-modified corn/wheat/whatever that can tolerate harsher conditions are a must-have. The time for the luxury of whining about frankencorn is about over.

2012 August 12, Mr.B1ack, “#Drought: America's new normal”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Genetically modified
genetically modified

(colloquial, derogatory) Genetically modified corn.


Chinese water chestnut

Chinese water chestnut (plural Chinese water chestnuts)

Eleocharis dulcis
Eleocharis dulcis#Translingual


buck spinifex

On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 47:

(Australia) Any of various plants with stiff blades, especially Triodia longiceps.


sugar grass

‘I sat here rolling a smoke, my horse snatching at this sugargrass, and I looked back at them trees.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 151:

Eulalia aurea
Eulalia aurea#Translingual

(Australia) A perennial grass (Eulalia aurea), of mainland Australia and southeast Asia.


cockatoo grass

A species of grass, Alloteropsis semialata, of tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia, and Australasia.


golden beardgrass

A species of grass, Chrysopogon fallax, of tropical and subtropical Australia.


puffed grain

Grains that have been processed to expand (puff).


ancient grain

A grain or pseudocereal purported to be minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia (often used in plural and in the context of marketing)

grain ancien

cereal or pseudocereal minimally changed by breeding


palmiet

The climate is very salubrious; that of the village, from its situation, very changeable, the N. E. wind creating at times oppressive heat, whilst the condensation of moisture by the palmiet growing in the valley, which extends through the village, renders it desirable that it should be cleared. The palmiet would then make way for luxuriant crops, the soil being purely alluvial.

1845, The Cape of Good Hope Almanac and Annual Register, page 258:

At some distance by the river was a great brute, bigger than a Newfoundland dog, stalking along with the hideous baboon walk, and tail vehemently cocked up; a troop followed at a distance, hiding and dodging among the palmiets.

1864, [Lucie,] Lady Duff-Gordon, “Letters from the Cape”, in Francis Galton, editor, Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3, London, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., page 194:

The reserve lies near the northern limit of the distribution of Prionium serratum – a palmiet that resembles a dwarf palm.

2017, Willie Olivier, Hiking Trails of South Africa, 4th edition, Struik Travel & Heritage, →ISBN:

A South African flowering plant, Prionium serratum.


ouricury wax

A brown wax obtained from the leaves of a Brazilian feather palm, Syagrus coronata, by scraping the leaf surface.


makalani palm

A palm tree of southern Africa, Hyphaene petersiana.


jaragua

An African grass, Hyparrhenia rufa, used as livestock feed.


bamboo palm

A West African palm tree, Raphia vinifera.


cumbungi

Behind the dune, native bullrush or cumbungi is still growing and was a rich resource for local aborigines. Its big rhizome provides starch used to make bread while its young shoots could be eaten fresh.

2014 January 10, Gabrielle Chan, “Deserted beaches hide evidence of thousands of years of Aboriginal history”, in The Guardian:

Mitchell said that the cakes made from the cumbungi flour ‘were lighter and sweeter than those made from common flour’.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 56:

(Australia) Any of several Australian perennial herbs of the genus Typha, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis.


chairmaker's bulrush

chairmaker's bulrush (plural chairmaker's bulrushes)

schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem. It has chosen to live in a place where it is always at risk of being drowned.

2022 May 23, Gregory Barber, “The Wetlands Are Drowning”, in Wired:

A perennial herb, Schoenoplectus americanus, native to the Americas, used as a model organism in the study of salt marsh ecology.


Olney's bulrush

Olney's bulrush (plural Olney's bulrushes)

Named after Stephen Thayer Olney (1812–1878), American manufacturer and botanist.

chairmaker's bulrush
chairmaker's bulrush

The chairmaker's bulrush (Schoenoplectus americanus).


windmill grass

windmill grass (plural windmill grasses)

Chloris truncata, a clumping grass of Australia, or, when modified, any grass in the genus Chloris.


Rhodes grass

An African grass, Chloris gayana, used as pasture.


sprangletop

A grass of the genus Leptochloa, or some crabgrasses (Digitaria).


beetle grass

A grass of the genus Leptochloa, sprangletop


bottle palm

Hyophorbe lagenicaulis, a palm tree found on Round Island


thief palm

A palm tree, Phoenicophorium borsigianum, native to the Seychelles.


stilt palm

A palm tree, Verschaffeltia splendida, native to the Seychelles.


macambira

The circus people proceeded, amid macambiras and across stony ground, taking turns pulling the wagon.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 267:

Pineapple-like plants known as macambiras, with worrisome thorny red blades, spring up in the hundreds out of the ground.

2006, Ehsan Masood, Daniel Schaffer, Dry: Life Without Water, page 114:

A thorny shrub, Bromelia laciniosa, of the pineapple family, native to Brazil and Argentina.


ouricuri

The Brazilian export prohibition on ouricuri oil has been relaxed to permit its exportation from the State of Bahia […].

1947, Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume 28, page 16:

Here and there he comes across knots of soldiers with their blouses unbuttoned, but he does not spy a single townsman as he makes his way to the main square, with towering ouricuri palms that are always swarming with birds.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 447:

He began by expounding in detail on Remédios Plaza, with its small white chapel, the benches around it, the numerous ouricury palms, the many flags, skyrockets, and ringing of bells.

1990, Aluísio Azevedo, translated by Murray Graeme MacNicoll, Mulatto, page 94:

A species of palm tree, Syagrus coronata, endemic to eastern Brazil.


moor grass

moor grass (countable and uncountable, plural moor grasses)

Either of the two herbaceous perennial grasses of the genus Molinia, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.


turtle vine

A creeping succulent of the spiderwort family (Callisia repens).


basket plant

A leafy herb of species Callisia fragrans, of the spiderwort family, native to Mexico, and often cultivated as a houseplant.


aromatic ginger

Kaempferia galanga
Kaempferia galanga#Translingual


lobster claw

A tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia


resurrection lily

resurrection lily (plural resurrection lilies)


Japanese millet

Japanese millet (plural Japanese millets)

Japanese barnyard millet, white millet (Echinochloa esculenta)

Indian barnyard millet, Siberian millet, white panicum (Echinochloa frumentacea)


marvel grass

Dichanthium annulatum, a grass used as forage.


bergpalmiet

Tetraria thermalis, a reedlike grass of South Africa.


sterile oat

Animated oat, wild red oat, or winter wild oat (Avena sterilis).


green cardamom

green cardamom (countable and uncountable, plural green cardamoms)


gingerbread palm

gingerbread palm (plural gingerbread palms)

The taste and texture of the ripe fruit has been likened to gingerbread.


glagah

glagah (countable and uncountable, plural glagahs)


steekgras

(South Africa) The tropical perennial tussock grass Heteropogon contortus.


whiskey grass

Andropogon virginicus
Andropogon virginicus#Translingual


purple three-awn grass

purple three-awn grass (usually uncountable, plural purple three-awn grasses)


Mexican feathergrass

Mexican feathergrass (usually uncountable, plural Mexican feathergrasses)


spiny bamboo

Bambusa blumeana, a species of clumping bamboo native to Tropical Asia.


chupalla

Fascicularia bicolor, a Chilean bromeliad.


white ginger

Hedychium coronarium
Hedychium coronarium#Translingual

butterfly-ginger, butterfly lily, cinnamon jasmine, garland flower, ginger lily, white ginger-lily, fragrant garland flower, Indian garland flower, white butterfly ginger lily

A decorative herb of India (Hedychium coronarium).


common bent

Agrostis capillaris
Agrostis capillaris#Translingual

A Eurasian grass of moist, open grasslands, introduced worldwide (Agrostis capillaris).


native millet

native millet (countable and uncountable, plural native millets)

The Mutti Mutti, Latji Latji, and Barkinji women and children combined forces with Japanese artist Yutaka Kobayshi in 2015 to harvest and extract grain from native millet.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 215:

(Australia) Any of several Australian grasses, typically of the genus Panicum, especially Panicum decompositum.


quiscal

Greigia sphacelata, a Chilean bromeliad.


pineapple palm

The Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), whose trunk somewhat resembles a pineapple.


rivet wheat

Triticum turgidum
Triticum turgidum#Translingual


blue ginger

blue ginger (countable and uncountable, plural blue gingers)


crested wheatgrass

crested wheatgrass (usually uncountable, plural crested wheatgrasses)


Krause's sedge

From Krause + -'s + sedge, a calque of translingual Carex krausei.


beaksedge

beaksedge (countable and uncountable, plural beaksedges)

From beak + sedge, from the tapered shape of its seedpods.

This is one of the larger species of beaksedges in Florida.

2005, Marc C. Minno, Jerry F. Butler, Donald W. Hall, Florida Butterfly Caterpillars and their Host Plants, University Press of Florida, page 225:

Beaksedge species are difficult to identify in the field; 10x or higher magnification is needed to examine the fruits.

2007, Linda G. Chafin, Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 303:

Several similar species may occur throughout the southeastern United States. Narrowfruit horned beaksedge is very similar and occurs in similar habitats, but is less common. Broadfruit horned beaksedge is also similar but is restricted to the lower coastal plain areas of Mississippi.

2012 February 1, Michael L. Schummer, Heath M. Hagy, K. Sarah Fleming, Joshua C. Cheshier, James T. Callicutt, “Beakrush, beaksedge, shortbristle horned beaksedge”, in A Guide to Moist-Soil Wetland Plants of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 168:


butterfly lily

butterfly lily (plural butterfly lilies)


flattened rice

Rice that has been pounded into flat flakes: a common staple in South and Southeast Asia.


white beaksedge

From white + beaksedge, especially from contrast with brown beaksedge (Rhynchospora fusca).

Dark bog pools are spiked with Common Cottongrass and White Beak-sedge, and in summer the brown, peaty water is warm to the touch.

2020 November 24, Sophie Lake, Durwyn Liley, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Britain's Habitats: A Field Guide to the Wildlife Habitats of Great Britain and Ireland - Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 264:

Rhynchospora alba
Rhynchospora alba#Translingual


brown beaksedge

From brown + beaksedge, especially from contrast with white beaksedge (Rhynchospora alba).

For example, in Brown beak-sedge (Rhynchospora fusca) the teeth on the bristles point upward; in White beak-sedge (Rhynchospora alba) the teeth located at the base point upward, while the teeth farther away from the base point downward.

2013 August 31, R. T. J. Cappers, R.M. Bekker, A Manual for the Identification of Plant Seeds and Fruits, Barkhuis, →ISBN, page 113:


common threesquare

Other species found in less abundance are marsh mallow, common threesquare, arrowhead, smartweed, water hemp, and cardinal flower.

1987, chapter 3, in Ware Creek Water Supply Reservoir, James City County: Environmental Impact Statement, page 9:

Schoenoplectus pungens, a species of bulrush.


threesquare

From three-square, referring to a cross-section of the plant's stem appearing as an equilateral triangle.

In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.

2018 March 14, Bryan MacKay, Paddle Maryland: A Guide to Rivers, Creeks, and Water Trails, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 38:

American threesquare
American threesquare

Several species of bulrush (biologically, sedges) with a triangular stem:

Schoenoplectus americanus (American threesquare, Olney's bulrush, chairmaker's bulrush).

Schoenoplectus pungens (common threesquare, sharp club-rush)


great bulrush

great bulrush (countable and uncountable, plural great bulrushes)

The shore here is dense with Great Bulrushes, and other rushes, too; Mary says four kinds thrive along her lake frontage.

2004, Mary Blocksma, Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 160:

Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, a species of bulrush.


softstem bulrush

softstem bulrush (countable and uncountable, plural softstem bulrushes)

Typical species found within drainage and depressional wetland areas include softstem bulrush, hardstem bulrush, green bulrush, cattail, wild millet and water smartweed.

2001, United States Army Corps of Engineers, chapter 3, in Maple River Dam and Reservoir, Construction and Operation, Cass County: Environmental Impact Statement, page 47:

A bulrush of species Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani.


grey club-rush

grey club-rush (countable and uncountable, plural grey club-rushes)

The only other identifiable plant macrofossil present was a nutlet of club-rush that was morphologically most similar to grey club-rush (Schoenoplectus cf tabernaemontani). This form of club-rush is most often found near the sea, although it also grows in marshes and dune-slacks.

2017 January 9, Dan Garner, Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 253:

(chiefly UK, Ireland) Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, a species of bulrush.


ankee

Echinochloa crus-galli
Echinochloa crus-galli#Translingual

A variety of the grass species Echinochloa crus-galli, used as a crop and its seeds for food.


seaside fescue

A perennial grass that thrives in sandy soils, Festuca rubra


plains lovegrass

plains lovegrass (countable and uncountable, plural plains lovegrasses)

Eragrostis intermedia, a New World species of tall grass.


purple wiregrass

purple wiregrass (plural purple wiregrasses)

On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 47:

A species of grass native to Australia (Aristida ramosa)