tritordeum

From the genus name, New Latin Tritordeum, apparently a blend of Triticum (“wheat”) + Hordeum (“barley”).

blend

In terms of yield, breeding in Tritordeum has allowed an increase to up to 80% of that of commercial wheat cultivars, maintaining a protein content approximately 5% higher than in wheat.

2012, Indra K. Vasil, editor, Molecular improvement of cereal crops, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 372:

An amphiploid cereal derived from the cross between a South American wild barley (Hordeum chilense) and durum wheat.


matweed

Nardus stricta
Nardus stricta#Translingual

Any of several maritime grasses.
Nardus stricta

Axonopus fissifolius (common carpetgrass)

Amaranthus blitoides (prostate amaranth, mat amaranth)


doum palm

The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:

A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and some countries of the Levant.


bloodwort

en-noun

bloodwort (usually uncountable, plural bloodworts)

From blood + wort. Compare German Blutwurz, Swedish blodrot, both “tormentil”.

Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis#Translingual

Any of various plants with red roots or leaves.

Any of species Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot).

Rumex sanguineus
Rumex sanguineus#Translingual

Any of species Rumex sanguineus (bloody dock, wood dock, bloody-veined dock).

Any of family Haemodoraceae, flowering plants some of whose roots contain a red dye.

Bloodwort is bitter, aromatic, stimulant, and tonic. It is useful in arresting bleeding.

1993, H K Bakhru, Herbs that Heal, page 185:

Achillea millefolium
Achillea millefolium#Translingual

Any of various plants used or formerly used to staunch bleeding.

Sanguinary, common yarrow, Achillea millefolium.

Various species in the genus Sanguisorba, burnet.

Capsella bursa-pastoris
Capsella bursa-pastoris#Translingual

Capsella bursa-pastoris, shepherd's purse.


pityroid

en-adj

pityroid (comparative more pityroid, superlative most pityroid)

more pityroid (comparative)
most pityroid (superlative)

From Ancient Greek πίτυρον (píturon, “bran”) + -oid.

The ointment may also be applied drugs about whose ultimate destiny in the in pityroid and seborrhoic alopecia

Having the form of, or resembling, bran.


lady's garters

(archaic) ribbongrass, Phalaris arundinacea


fiorin

en-noun

fiorin (usually uncountable, plural fiorins)

Compare Irish fiothran (“a sort of grass”).

Agrostis stolonifera
Agrostis stolonifera#Translingual

(botany) creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera).


amelcorn

From German Amelkorn: compare Middle High German amel, amer (“spelt”) and Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon).

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual


bejuco

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liana; in the Philippines, especially any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.


Guatemala grass

Guatemala grass (countable and uncountable, plural Guatemala grasses)

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


hair grass

A grass with very slender leaves or branches, as:

Agrostis scabra
Agrostis scabra#Translingual

Several species of tussock grass (Deschampsia).


burgrass

burgrass (countable and uncountable, plural burgrasses)

A grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand and having burs for fruit.


marram

marram (countable and uncountable, plural marrams)

From Old Norse maralmr, a compound of marr (“sea”) and halmr (“straw, reed”).

Rather would we compare these marram-tufted, wind-sculptured sand-wastes with the Red Sea litoral and the Egyptian Soudan, where Osman Digna led British troops memorable dances in the ‘nineties—alike both in their physical aspect and in their climate, red-hot by day, yet apt to be deadly chilly after sundown.

1910, Walter John Buck, Abel Chapman, Unexplored Spain:

He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent. Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.

Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.


beachgrass

beachgrass (countable and uncountable, plural beachgrasses)

Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass native to sandy beaches of Europe (north to Iceland) and northwest Africa.

Ammophila breviligulata, a coarse grass native to sandy beaches of eastern North America, including the shores of the Great Lakes.


redroot

Any of several plants with red roots, such as the New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus), the gromwell (Lithospermum arvense), the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), and Lachnanthes caroliniana .


turfgrass

turfgrass (countable and uncountable, plural turfgrasses)


tucum

From Brazilian Portuguese tucum, from Old Tupi.

A fine, strong fibre obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.


lyme grass

lyme grass (usually uncountable, plural lyme grasses)

Leymus arenarius, a coarse perennial grass.


donax

Borrowed from Latin donax (“reed; also a marine fish”), from Ancient Greek δόναξ (dónax).

bor

(dated) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo donax), used for fishing rods, etc.


Randall grass

(US) The meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis, syn. Festuca elatior).


goldseed

(archaic) A plant, dog's-tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus).


doob grass

From Hindi दूब (dūb), from Sanskrit दूर्वा (dūrvā). The first element is a doublet of durva.


shampoo ginger

en-noun

shampoo ginger (countable and uncountable, plural shampoo gingers)

Zingiber zerumbet
Zingiber zerumbet#Translingual

An Asian and Polynesian plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, whose inflorescence contains a substance used as a shampoo.


hare's-tail

hare's-tail cottongrass
hare's-tail cottongrass

Eriophorum vaginatum
Eriophorum vaginatum#Translingual

A kind of sedge, hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum).


cutgrass

cutgrass (countable and uncountable, plural cutgrasses)

Any of several grass species of Leersia, whose leaves have edges with very small hooked prickles


tous-les-mois

French, all the months, i.e. every month. The tubers of the plant are edible throughout the year.

The East India arrowroot was considered the best; and the French West India arrowroot not so good. The East India arrowroot had the finest grains; the second finest were those from the potato; and third the tous les mois or French West India arrowroot; […]

1845, Edwin Lankester, “Lecture II. Starch—Potato—Arrow-root—Tapioca—Protein—Wheat—Maize—Rice.”, in Report of Lectures on the Natural History of Plants Yielding Food; […], London: John Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 16:

A kind of starch with large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot or used for adulterating cocoa, made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis.


bahiagrass

bahiagrass (countable and uncountable, plural bahiagrasses)


ray grass

ray grass (countable and uncountable, plural ray grasses)

(archaic) A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); ryegrass; red darnel.


juncus

From the genus name. Doublet of junco and junk.

(botany) Any plant of the genus Juncus (the rushes).


ragi

Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana#Translingual

A grain, of species Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet.


sword grass

sword grass (countable and uncountable, plural sword grasses)

Any of various grasses with blades that are sharp enough to cut human skin.


seave

From Old Norse sef, whence also Danish siv, Icelandic sef and Swedish säv (“club-rush”).

(UK, dialect) A wick made from this plant.


cottongrass

cottongrass (usually uncountable, plural cottongrasses)

As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]

1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:

Various species of plants of genus Eriophorum in the sedge family


rye flake

(chiefly in the plural) A rye groat that is cut, cooked and rolled into a flake, used as a breakfast cereal.


windlestraw

windlestraw (countable and uncountable, plural windlestraws)

Grey rocks did peep from the square moss, and stemmed / The struggling brook: tall spires of windlestrae / Threw their thin shadows down the rugged slope, / And nought but gnarlèd roots of ancient pines, / Branchless and blasted, clenched with grasping roots / The unwilling soil.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, especially Apera spica-venti.


coquilla nut

From Portuguese coquilho, Spanish coquillo, diminutive of coco (“a coconut”).

The fruit of a Brazilian palm tree (Attalea funifera of Martius), whose hard dense shell is used by turners to make ornamental articles.


date tree

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera#Translingual

A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.


dog's-tail grass

dog's-tail grass (usually uncountable, plural dog's-tail grasses)

A hardy British grass (Cynosurus cristatus); goldseed.


pooid

(botany) Any of the grass subfamily Pooideae.


palmita

From Spanish palmita, diminutive of palma (“palm”).

A house was soon observed at a distance among the palmitas, to which Francisco and the Indian directed their way, under a pretext of reconnoitering the premises, while the party were charged to remain near a conspicuous tree[…]

1818, Alexander Gillespie, Gleanings and remarks, page 221:

I wrote my journal, and grubbed up what I supposed to be a palmita-root with my navaja (clasp-knife).

1856, George John Cayley, The bridle roads of Spain, page 99:

The European fan palm, a dwarf palm in the genus Chamaerops.


wild rice

wild rice (usually uncountable, plural wild rices)

Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.


yokeag

From Mohegan-Pequot yoakheage, yok'hig, shortening of yok'higan (“(that which is) made soft”), related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”) (see nocake) and Quiripi *rōhkhīk (see rokeag).

Tables were arranged inside and the festival was held Wednesday and Thursday and many visitors appeared for the midday meal, clam chowder, oyster stew, succotash and the famous traveling food—yokeag, made of mortars of pepperidge wood. Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors. It was light to carry and nourishing. We have been told that a small quantity was placed in a deerskin sack to be placed at the waist of the warrior or hunter and with water served as a meal.

1995, Melissa Jayne Fawcett [Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel], The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, The Story of the Wolf People, Uncasville, Conn.: Mohegan Tribe, →OCLC, page 55:

She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.

2006, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 235:

The Mohegan were farmers and fishermen and they provided vegetables (mostly corn), meat and fish for the [Annual Brush Arbor or Wigwam] Festival. One ceremonial food was "Yokeag." One year old yellow corn kernels were parched and ground to fine meal. Every family had a wooden mortar and stone pestle and the men worked long hours in preparing this. Traditionally it was known as "Traveling Food" and was carried by hunters and warriors.

2014, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, “An Affectionate Portrait of Frank Speck”, in Siobhan Senier, editor, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 584:


aechmea

The aechmea, which is one of the many members of the Bromeliadaceae family, likes sunny to semi-sunny conditions, temperature 60° and a humidity level of around 30 percent […]

1978, Robert J. Dingwall, The Garden Answers:

The aechmeas are remarkable for their long lasting flower and berry complexes, sometimes in large panicles.

1987, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Plants and Gardens: Volume 43:

Any member of the genus Aechmea of bromeliaceous plants.


Para grass

Para grass (countable and uncountable, plural Para grasses)

An African grass, Urochloa mutica, used for fodder.


para grass

para grass (countable and uncountable, plural para grasses)

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.


sourgrass

sourgrass (usually uncountable, plural sourgrasses)


sea apple

Sea-apple: Manicaria Pluketielii.

1864, August Grisebach, Flora of the British West Indian Islands:

The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria plukenetii ⇒ ) Manicaria saccifera, often found floating in the sea.


hayland

hayland (countable and uncountable, plural haylands)


cassumunar

A pungent, bitter, aromatic root, Zingiber montanum, resembling ginger, obtained from the East Indies.


scutch grass

scutch grass (countable and uncountable, plural scutch grasses)

I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.

Elymus repens
Elymus repens#Translingual


commelinid

(botany) Any member of the subclass Commelinidae of grasses, rushes, sedges and similar plants, or of the clade commelinids.


zebrina

The plants are equally attractive when different-colored zebrinas are trained on a fan-shaped or rectangular trellis. The rose-colored flowers, of which new ones blossom each morning, add to the attractiveness of this viny, succulent herb.

2012, A. J. Oakes, Ornamental Grasses and Grasslike Plants, page 462:

Tradescantia zebrina
Tradescantia zebrina#Translingual

The flowering plant Tradescantia zebrina (formerly Zebrina pendula), a species of spiderwort.


palm oil

palm oil (countable and uncountable, plural palm oils)

In the sense of a bribe, the phrase is a punning reference to the palm of the hand.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

Elaeis guineensis
Elaeis guineensis#Translingual

An edible plant oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).


manna croup

manna + Russian крупа (krupa) or Polish krupa ("groats, grits").

The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc.


coquilla

Borrowed from Spanish coquilla, diminutive of coca (“shell”).

The nut of the Brazilian palm Attalea funifera.


piassava

piassava (countable and uncountable, plural piassavas)

Common brushes and brooms made of bristles, rice straw, piassava, and other animal or vegetable stuffs; also mounted with wood or iron, not colored, without polish or varnish:

1893, United States Congressional serial set, page 150:

In Santa Cruz, for instance, where laborers are scarce and the means of communication bad, the gatherers of piassava are paid at the rate of from 2 to 3 milreis (the milreis is equivalent to about 30 cents) per arroba; [...]. The British syndicate above referred to uses [...] steel cleaves for cutting the piassava into uniform strips;

1909, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 678:

Piassava Industry. At a recent meeting of the West African section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce a letter was read from the colonial secretary of Gambia inclosing the following report on the development of the piassava industry ...

1914, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, page 972:

The revised export-tariff schedule provides for Increased duties on palm kernels, palm oil, ginger, groundnuts, and piassava, and coffee, cocoa, benneseed, and kola nuts were made subject to export duties for the first time.

A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia piassaba), formerly used in making brooms and for other purposes.


tradescantia

(botany) Any of the genus Tradescantia of spiderworts.


bertam palm

Any of various palms in the genus Eugeissona.


Abyssinian banana

Abyssinian banana (plural Abyssinian bananas)

Ensete ventricosum
Ensete ventricosum#Translingual

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

A banana plant, Ensete ventricosum, with inedible fruit and edible flower stalks; ensete.


fonio

There’s a certain magic to fonio, a tiny golden grain believed to be Africa’s oldest cultivated cereal. The ancient grain’s potential to solve pressing modern environmental and economic challenges inspired Pierre Thiam, the Senegalese-born chef, to become fonio’s No 1 champion.

2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Digitaria exilis
Digitaria exilis#Translingual

Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio


mazamorra

mazamorra (countable and uncountable, plural mazamorras)

A traditional maize-based pudding or drink of Latin America.


canary grass

canary grass (countable and uncountable, plural canary grasses)

Phalaris canariensis, a grass whose seeds are used as birdseed


roseling

An herb of the spiderwort family, genus Callisia.


sowens

It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.

1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61:

(Scotland) A food item made from the husk of the oat by a process similar to that by which common starch is made; flummery.


broomsedge

Andropogon virginicus
Andropogon virginicus#Translingual

Any species of grass in the genus Andropogon, especially Andropogon virginicus, broomsedge bluestem.


basketgrass

Any of various grasses of the genus Oplismenus.


bigg

en-verb

bigg (third-person singular simple present biggs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)

biggs (present singular third-person)
bigging (participle present)
bigged (participle past)
bigged (past)

From Middle English biggen, from Old Norse byggja. See boor and bound.

"Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"

1817, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, page 78:

(transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) To build.


catstail

From Middle English cattestail, equivalent to cat + -s- + tail.

Phleum pratense
Phleum pratense#Translingual


ciboa

The Ciboa-Tree is very much like a Palm-Tree, and grows to a great Height: The Leaves which grow on the Top are very usesul for covering of Houses, and the Natives extract Wine out of it in the same Way as out of the Palm-Tree […]

1738, Francis Moore, Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa:

In the afternoon it rained hard, and we had recourse to the common Negro umbrella, a large ciboa leaf, which being placed upon the head, completely defends the whole body from the rain.

1799, Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, volume 1:

Stands of ciboa darken the valleys, and massive tabbas, wide around as Big Ben, transfix the hilltops.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 94:

A type of palm tree with large fronds, Borassus aethiopicum, growing in West Africa.


marsh grass

en-noun

marsh grass (usually uncountable, plural marsh grasses)

cord grass, swamp grass, meadow grass, swamp hay, thatch grass

Any coarse grass growing in marshes of genus Spartina.

jungle rice, shama millet, Deccan grass, small barnyard grass, awnless barnyard grass

Barnyard millet, jungle ricegrass (Echinochloa colonum)


salt hay

salt hay (usually uncountable, plural salt hays)

A hay made from any grass grown in salty or alkali conditions.


harestail

harestail (usually uncountable, plural harestails)

The head of the grass resembles a hare's tail.


panicgrass

panicgrass (countable and uncountable, plural panicgrasses)

From Latin pānicum (“Italian millet”) + grass.

Any of several of the species of grass in the genus Panicum.

fall panicgrass - Panicum dichotomiflorum


caraguatá

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese caraguatá, from Tupian.

bor+

Of the "végétation rabougrie," the cactus and the caraguatá bromelia appeared to be the most general.

1870, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Letters from the Battle-fields of Paraguay, page 374:

[...] women are constantly occupied with making thread, netting, or needle-looping. The development of techniques of string work was favored by the abundance of the Bromelia which provide excelllent raw material. The caraguatá (Bromelia sp.) are uprooted [...]

1946, Handbook of South American Indians, page 285:

Some edible species of caraguatá (Bromelia sp.) are found in the forested areas of the Chaco. [...] They leave in small family groups with their caraguatá fiber bags strapped across their foreheads, carrying long poles hooked at the far end [...]

2002, John Renshaw, The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 82:

Any of several similar South American bromeliad plants, Bromelia serra, Bromelia pinguin or Bromelia balansae (syn. Bromelia argentina), which yield a long, silky fiber used for making cords, sacks, etc.


field corn

en-noun

field corn (usually uncountable, plural field corns)

(US) Any variety of corn (maize) grown primarily for fodder; usually, one with lower sugar content than sweet corn and harvested either to be stored dry (on the cob or off, divorced of the stover) or ensiled along with the stover.


Manchurian wild rice

Zizania latifolia
Zizania latifolia#Translingual

A cereal grass that grows mostly in China, whose stem is eaten as a vegetable; Zizania latifolia.


northern wild rice

Wild rice of the species Zizania palustris, native to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Canada north and west of the Great Lakes.


citronella grass

citronella grass (countable and uncountable, plural citronella grasses)

Either of two types of grass related to lemongrass, Cymbopogon nardus and Cymbopogon winterianus.


maoli

I believe that the maoli wahines, with their passion for personal adornment, would not have forgotten the flower seeds, and it was their forethought that enabled them in their adopted home to have the leis of ilima and kou they had been accustomed to wear in Samoa and Tahiti.

1896, All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii:

Genocide. Flooding the valleys and stripping the limu clean from the rocks Sweeping away the 'opae from the streams the ulu from the land and the maoli from the earth.

1986, Eric Edward Chock, Rodney Morales, Darrell H. Y. Lum, The Best of Bamboo Ridge, the Hawaii Writers' Quarterly, →ISBN, page 51:

This is an important cultural difference of interpretation between London as a haole writer and Sheldon as a maoli writer.

2000, Cynthia G. Franklin, Ruth Hsu, Suzanne Kosanke, Navigating Islands and Continents, →ISBN:

As a woman hoping to “make sense” and potentially revision this most sticky issue from the awareness of a woman, though not necessarily a maoli (native), I would hope that the points that I am bringing up in passing will ...

2008, Wennifer Lin, Birth Art and the Art of Birthing, →ISBN:

Alternative form of Maoli (native Hawaiian)

Kaneiakama's spirit companion instructed him what to do, how to place the sacrificial pig, coconuts, red fish, bananas of the maoli variety and other offerings at the foot of a tree that was entered by one of the male gods.

1971, Catherine C. Summers, Molokai: A Site Survey, page 201:

[He could choose] light-colored varieties of bananas such as the ha'a, iholena, loha, and lele; or dark-colored varieties such as the maoli, kahtki, puhi, koa'e, malei'ula, 'eke'ula, kaualau, popo'ulu, aulena, and others.

1976, Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau, The works of the people of old, page 38:

This banana resembles the "maoli" in general appearance. Its fruit is shorter and quite large in size.

2003, D. M. Kaaiakamanu, J. K. Akina, Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, →ISBN, page 67:

A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.


velvetgrass

velvetgrass (usually uncountable, plural velvetgrasses)


snowgrass

But there are few dry twigs or leaves to be found, and so he gathers a clump of snow grass and with his cigarette lighter he singes this grass, holding it close to him so that he can absorb its scent.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 30

(Australia) Any of various grasses of high-country areas of southeastern Australia (including Tasmania), especially perennials of the genus Poa.


bitter panicgrass

Panicum amarum, native to the southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, Cuba, and Bahama.


peameal

peameal (usually uncountable, plural peameals)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-peameal.wav


palm nut

The edible seed of Elaeis guineensis, the oil palm


tiger nut

Consequently, once established in some African regions, the tiger nut has become a weed that is difficult to eradicate. The fibrous “nuts” may be eaten raw out of hand, but they are usually roasted or cooked and added to soups.

2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 332:

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

(especially in the plural) The edible tuber of chufa (Cyperus esculentus).


chusquea

(botany) Any of the genus Chusquea of evergreen bamboos, mostly native to mountain sites in Central and South America.


mannagrass

Any of several perennial grasses of the genus Glyceria


wild ginger

wild ginger (usually uncountable, plural wild gingers)

Zingiber officinale
Zingiber officinale#Translingual

Any of the many plants similar to culinary ginger (Zingiber officinale) in appearance or aroma.

Hedychium gardnerianum (kahili ginger, ginger lily)


cobette

I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.

2002, Patricia Hickman, Sandpebbles, page 194:

Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree.

2006, Progress Report, volume 15, page 54:

Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]

2011, Rehana Incognito, Bodycage, page 304:

A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.


Medjool

A kind of large, moist date (the fruit).


Jamaica ginger

A variety of ginger prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.


old man's beard

old man's beard (countable and uncountable, plural old man's beards or old men's beards)

old man's beards (plural)
old men's beards (plural)

Tillandsia usneoides
Tillandsia usneoides#Translingual

(uncountable) Tillandsia usneoides, a bromeliad; Spanish moss.


Malacca cane

Malacca cane (countable and uncountable, plural Malacca canes)

From the former importance of Malacca as a port for the rattan trade and cane in its senses both as a reed-like plant and as a walking stick.

The well-known ‘Malacca Canes’... do not occur about Malacca itself, but are imported from Siak, on the opposite coast of Sumatra.

1856, Berthold Carl Seemann, A Popular History of the Palms and Their Allies, page 131:

Malacca canes have frequently to be colored in parts.

1874, Edward H. Knight, The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, volume I, page 443:

Adrian checked the orchid at his buttonhole, inspected the spats at his feet, gave the lavender gloves a twitch, smoothed down his waistcoat, tucked the ebony Malacca-cane under his arm, swallowed twice and pushed wide the changing-room door.

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 5:

(countable, fashion) A walking stick made of C. scipionum or similar material with a rich but mottled brown color.


ant rice

So called because it grows around ant nests in Texas and has been thought to be cultivated by the ants for the sake of its seed.

[…] LINCECUM HYPOTHESIS The Lincecum Hypothesis, or the ant-rice story, is a strangely romantic idea from the Civil War era that has now lost favor. This controversy revolved around the claim that harvesters not only collect seeds […].

1998, Stephen Welton Taber, The World of the Harvester Ants, page 33:

Aristida oligantha
Aristida oligantha#Translingual


water hyacinth

মেটেকা

aquatic flowering plant of the genus Eichhornia

Any of the genus Pontederia (syn. Eichhornia) of aquatic flowering plants.

especially common water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes, syn. Eichhornia crassipes), a problematic invasive plant that clogs waterways in warm temperate and subtropical regions worldwide.


nitgrass

Gastridium ventricosum, a European annual grass bearing a long, thin, smooth inflorescence of spikelets.


walking palm

A palm tree of species Socratea exorrhiza, which is said to use its complex root system to "walk" across the rainforest floor.


orchardgrass

Any of various grasses of the genus Dactylis, especially Dactylis glomerata.


peasemeal

A flour produced from yellow field peas that have been roasted.


durum wheat

durum wheat (countable and uncountable, plural durum wheats)

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum#Translingual

Triticum durum
Triticum durum#Translingual

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.


millionaire's salad

So called because, once the palm hearts are harvested, the entire tree will die — making it a costly source of food.


winter wheat

winter wheat (countable and uncountable, plural winter wheats)

A type of wheat that is planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.


spring wheat

spring wheat (countable and uncountable, plural spring wheats)

A type of wheat that does not require vernalization and may thus be sown in spring for harvest in autumn or, if the climate allows, in the autumn for spring harvest.


sweetgrass

sweetgrass (countable and uncountable, plural sweetgrasses)

Hierochloe odorata
Hierochloe odorata#Translingual

Anthoxanthum nitens
Anthoxanthum nitens#Translingual

Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America

Muhlenbergia filipes, a grass native to the southeastern United States


pinegrass

pinegrass (countable and uncountable, plural pinegrasses)

Calamagrostis rubescens, a perennial bunchgrass native to western North America.


maiden grass

maiden grass (usually uncountable, plural maiden grasses)

Miscanthus sinensis
Miscanthus sinensis#Translingual

Miscanthus sinensis, an Asian herbaceous perennial grass with purplish flowers.


razor grass

razor grass (countable and uncountable, plural razor grasses)

Any of various plants with sharp-toothed leaves, especially those of the genus Scleria, such as Scleria gaertneri.


susuki grass

Miscanthus sinensis, a species of grass native to eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.


coracan millet

From Sri Lankan Tamil குரக்கன் (kurakkaṉ), which is cognate with, if not from, Sinhalese කුරක්කං (kurakkaṁ).

Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana#Translingual


wandering Jew

The plant's name is derived from the figure of the Wandering Jew, presumably at least partly from the tendency of those plants to spread through a garden (i.e. wander).

Saxifraga stolonifera
Saxifraga stolonifera#Translingual


club rush

Any rush of the genus Scirpus or related genera.


Indian wheat

Indian wheat (usually uncountable, plural Indian wheats)

A plant of species Plantago ovata, a plantain that is a source of psyllium.


woolgrass

woolgrass (usually uncountable, plural woolgrasses)

Scirpus cyperinus, a herbaceous emergent that is native to the eastern United States and eastern Canada.


pampas grass

pampas grass (countable and uncountable, plural pampas grasses)

Any of several tall-growing species of grass.

Miscanthus sinensis (maiden silvergrass, maiden grass, Chinese silver grass, Korean uksae, susuki grass, Japanese pampas grass, Eulalia grass, zebra grass)


poverty grass

poverty grass (countable and uncountable, plural poverty grasses)

Any of several grasses that grow in poor or sandy soil.


German wheat

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual


false banana

Ensete ventricosum
Ensete ventricosum#Translingual

Ensete ventricosum, a plant in the banana family.


squirreltail

Elymus elymoides, a species of wild rye.


spikegrass

spikegrass (countable and uncountable, plural spikegrasses)

Either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata and Uniola latifolia) with broad leaves and large flattened spikelets.


holy grass

holy grass (usually uncountable, plural holy grasses)

It was traditionally sometimes strewn on the floors of churches on festival days.

Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), fragrant grass native to northern Eurasia and North America.


royal palm

Any of the genus Roystonea of palm trees, native to the Caribbean Islands and the adjacent coasts of Florida and Central and South America, but grown throughout the tropics and subtropics for its great height and elegant form

especially of the species Roystonea regia.


Calrose

From California and Blue Rose, an earlier rice variety.

A variety of medium-grain rice from California.


rescue grass

rescue grass (countable and uncountable, plural rescue grasses)

A tall grass (Bromus catharticus) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the southern United States.


Molucca palm

Nypa fruticans
Nypa fruticans#Translingual


palm cabbage

The terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.


pigeongrass

pigeongrass (countable and uncountable, plural pigeongrasses)

Any of various grasses of the genus Setaria.


needle-and-thread grass

Hesperostipa comata, a North American grass.


German millet

Setaria italica
Setaria italica#Translingual


toad rush

So named because of its tendency to grow in the same habitat where toads live.

Juncus bufonius, a common species of rush found worldwide, growing in moist and muddy places.


negro corn

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual

(archaic) durra; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)


needlegrass

needlegrass (countable and uncountable, plural needlegrasses)

Any of several genera of Poaceae grasses:


animated oat

animated oat (usually uncountable, plural animated oats)

So called because its spikelets can move in response to moisture.

Avena sterilis, a species of grass weed with edible seeds.


fountaingrass

fountaingrass (countable and uncountable, plural fountaingrasses)


scratchgrass

Muhlenbergia asperifolia, a grass native to much of North America.


ribbongrass

reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea).


asham

I’m looking at damn coconut drops and feel like asking if they have any dukunnu, asham or jackass corn.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 682:

(Caribbean, Jamaica) A dessert made from shelled and parched corn pounded into powder.


poulard wheat

poulard wheat (countable and uncountable, plural poulard wheats)

Triticum turgidum
Triticum turgidum#Translingual


heart of palm

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

A vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, especially the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), which is often grown for the purpose.

جُمَّار

a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees


pejibaye

The edible fruit of the tropical peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a single-seeded drupe; a peewah.


corn oyster

(US) A fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, supposed to taste like oysters.


fox sedge

Carex vulpinoidea, native to North America.


blue wood sedge

blue wood sedge (countable and uncountable, plural blue wood sedges)

Carex glaucodea, native to North America.


Pennsylvania sedge

Pennsylvania sedge (usually uncountable, plural Pennsylvania sedges)

Carex pensylvanica (in Carex subg. Carex), native to eastern North America.


plantainleaf sedge

Carex plantaginea (in Carex subg. Carex), growing in meadows in the eastern US.


sallow sedge

Carex lurida (in Carex subg. Carex), native to eastern North America.


long hair sedge

Carex crinita, native to eastern North America.


quaking grass

quaking grass (countable and uncountable, plural quaking grasses)

Any of the genus Briza of annual and perennial grasses, whose flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze.


muhly

muhly (countable and uncountable, plural muhlies)

Shortening of translingual Muhlenbergia + -y.

Any of the many species of grasses of genus Muhlenbergia.


small reed

A reed-like grass of the genus Calamagrostis.


squirrel grass

squirrel grass (usually uncountable, plural squirrel grasses)

Hordeum jubatum
Hordeum jubatum#Translingual


foxtail barley

Hordeum jubatum, a perennial grass with attractive inflorescences.


Guinea pepper

Aframomum melegueta
Aframomum melegueta#Translingual

Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.

Aframomum melegueta (grains of paradise) from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).


Guinea grass

Guinea grass (countable and uncountable, plural Guinea grasses)

Megathyrsus maximus, a large perennial bunchgrass native to Africa, Palestine, and Yemen.


tiger grass

tiger grass (countable and uncountable, plural tiger grasses)

Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica#Translingual


feathergrass

feathergrass (countable and uncountable, plural feathergrasses)

Any of various perennial hermaphroditic grasses of the genus Stipa.


black speargrass

black speargrass (usually uncountable, plural black speargrasses)

A species (Heteropogon contortus) of tangleheads, a tropical, perennial grass.


black moss

black moss (usually uncountable, plural black mosses)

Bryoria fremontii
Bryoria fremontii#Translingual

(US) Bryoria fremontii (wila), a lichen eaten by First Peoples in North America.


neoregelia

(botany) Any of the genus Neoregelia of flowering plants in the bromeliad family.


blackgrass

(US) Juncus gerardii, a salt marsh plant used for facing dikes.


Virginia wild rye

Virginia wild rye (countable and uncountable, plural Virginia wild ryes)

Elymus virginicus, native to the northeastern United States.


wild rye

Any of the grasses of genera Elymus or Leymus.


switch grass

switch grass (countable and uncountable, plural switch grasses)

Panicum virgatum, a dominant species of the central North American tallgrass prairie.


rice cutgrass

rice cutgrass (countable and uncountable, plural rice cutgrasses)


sea oats

sea oats (countable and uncountable, plural sea oats)

Any species of oat-like grasses that can tolerate salty and alkaline conditions.

Uniola paniculata, native to the Gulf and southeastern coasts of the United States.


river oats

river oats (countable and uncountable, plural river oats)

Grass of species Chasmanthium latifolium, native to central and southeastern United States.


broom sedge

broom sedge (countable and uncountable, plural broom sedges)

Andropogon virginicus
Andropogon virginicus#Translingual

Andropogon virginicus, a tall grass native to the southeastern United States, considered invasive in some other environments.


bushy bluestem

bushy bluestem (countable and uncountable, plural bushy bluestems)

Andropogon glomeratus, widespread in temperate and warm areas of the Americas.


bluejoint reed grass

bluejoint reed grass (countable and uncountable, plural bluejoint reed grasses)

Calamagrostis canadensis, native to much of northern North America.


long-beaked bald rush

Rhynchospora scirpoides, reported in scattered parts of the eastern United States


Bicknell's sedge

Carex bicknellii, principally found in north central and northeastern United States.


soft fox sedge

Carex conjuncta, native to north central and northeastern United States.


cat-tail sedge

cat-tail sedge (countable and uncountable, plural cat-tail sedges)

Carex typhina (in Carex subg. Carex), native to eastern North America


saw palmetto

The edges of the leaflets of this palm have strong spines, like a saw.

A similar plant (Chamaerops humilis), native to Europe and north Africa


wild oats

Oats of non-cultivated species of Avena, a genus of grasses.


soft rush

Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus#Translingual

A plant of the species Juncus effusus, nearly worldwide in distribution, native over much of its current range, excluding Australia, Madagascar, and many islands.


star grass

star grass (countable and uncountable, plural star grasses)

Any of several grasses or grass-like plants:

Cynodon and Chloris spp., grasses in the subtribe Eleusininae of the Poaceae, especially Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon.

Cynodon dactylon
Cynodon dactylon#Translingual

Aletris spp., flowering plants in the family Nartheciaceae.

Callitriche spp., flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae.

Hypoxis spp., flowering plants belonging to the family Hypoxidaceae.


meadow hay

meadow hay (countable and uncountable, plural meadow hays)

A plant of the species Spartina patens, a cordgrass native to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.


softstem rush

Toe cover that develops is usually broad-leaved cattail, softstem rush (Juncus effusus), wool-grass (Scirpus eriophorum), switch-cane (Arundinaria tecta) and plume-grass (Erianthus spp.).

1947, Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners, Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners, page 90:

[…] it is relatively common in recent clearcuts and stands of Cane (Arundinaria gigantea) and Softstem Rush (Juncus effusus) but relatively uncommon in mature pine and hardwood forests.

1987, Mary K. Clark, Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Fauna of North Carolina, page 22:

A plant of the species Juncus effusus, a type of true rush found worldwide.

For the large rectangular mat, the bulrush or rush, as Scirpus validus Vahl., is concurred in by Densmore (1928, pp. 293, 295, 378), Gilmore (1933, p. 124), Kinietz and Jones (1942, p. 525), and Smith (1932, p. 418). In contrast to this soft-stem rush, the hard-stem variety, Scirpus acutus Muhl., was found for the mat in this study.

1963, Karen Daniels Petersen, Chippewa Mat-weaving Techniques, U.S. Government Printing Office:

Spike rush [Eleocharis palustris) and soft-stem bulrush [Scirpus validus] were destroyed by flood with over 15 inches of water in 3 years

1967, Wm. S Eisenlahr, Jr., Charles E. Sloan, “GENERALIZED HYDROLOGY OF PRAIRIE POTHOLES ON THE COTEAU DU MISSOURI, NORTH DAKOTA”, in Geological Survey Circular, volumes 540-570, USGS:

A plant of the species Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, a type of bulrush or sedge native to the northern hemisphere.


green bulrush

A plant of the species Scirpus atrovirens


woolgrass bulrush

woolgrass bulrush (plural woolgrass bulrushes)

A plant of the species Scirpus cyperinus, native to eastern North America.


little bluestem grass

little bluestem grass (plural little bluestem grasses)

Schizachyrium scoparium
Schizachyrium scoparium#Translingual

A plant of the species Schizachyrium scoparium, Native to most of North America.


areca palm

Areca catechu
Areca catechu#Translingual


pisang wax

A vegetable wax produced by banana leaves.


hard wheat

hard wheat (countable and uncountable, plural hard wheats)

Any variety of wheat with hard grains of a higher protein content, used in the production of bread flour and pasta.


muttongrass

Poa fendleriana, a grass native to western North America.


common barley

common barley (countable and uncountable, plural common barleys)

Hordeum vulgare
Hordeum vulgare#Translingual

A plant of the species Hordeum vulgare, which yields the commercially important cereal grain barley.


blue corn

(Canada, US) A variety of corn with dark bluish grains.


Spanish moss

Spanish moss (usually uncountable, plural Spanish mosses)

Tillandsia usneoides
Tillandsia usneoides#Translingual

A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.


gingerbread tree

gingerbread tree (plural gingerbread trees)


andropogon

(botany) Any member of the grass genus Andropogon.

andropogon

any member of the grass genus Andropogon


corn-cracker

Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meeting-house.

1862, James R. Gilmore, chapter 12, in Among the Pines, or, South in Secession Time:

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US.


flyaway grass

So called from its light panicle, which is blown across great distances by the wind.

Agrostis scabra
Agrostis scabra#Translingual


ticklegrass

ticklegrass (countable and uncountable, plural ticklegrasses)

Any of certain grasses in the genus Agrostis.


watergrass

watergrass (countable and uncountable, plural watergrasses)

Any of various grasses in the genus Echinochloa that are capable of growing in water.


wait-a-while

Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.

In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136:

(Australia) Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.


zerumbet

From Medieval Latin zerumbet, zurumbet, from Arabic زُرُنْبَاد (zurunbād).

Zingiber zerumbet
Zingiber zerumbet#Translingual

(archaic) Zingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.


pickerel weed

Any of the genus Pontederia of tristylous aquatic plants with large waxy leaves, succulent stems, and a thick pad of fibrous roots.


coryphoid

(botany) Any palm of the subfamily Coryphoideae


arecoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Arecoideae.


cocosoid

(botany) Belonging or relating to the palms of the subfamily Cocosoideae.


Antarctic hair grass

Deschampsia antarctica, a flowering plant native to Antarctica.


katemfe

Another interesting African fruit containing an intense sweetener is katemfe, or the miraculous fruit of the Sudan.

1980, The Herbarist, numbers 46-48, Herb Society of America, page 74:

(Africa) The shrub Thaumatococcus danielli.


carnaroli

/ˌkɑːnəˈɹəʊlɪ/

/ˌkɑɹnəˈɹoʊli/

A medium-grain variety of rice from around Pavia, used especially in risottos.


cocksfoot

The measurements of reactive oxygen species and antioxidant enzymes of cocksfoot plants susceptible to CfMV and plants with acquired immunity to CfMV, show completely different patterns in up- and down-regulation after inoculation of CfMV.

2015, Merike Sõmera et al., “Overview on Sobemoviruses and a Proposal for the Creation of the Family Sobemoviridae”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI:

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:

Any of the genus Dactylis of Eurasian and North African bluegrasses, especially Dactylis glomerata.


myoga

Zingiber mioga
Zingiber mioga#Translingual

A Japanese type of ginger, Zingiber mioga, of which only the shoots and flower buds are used in cooking.


pinecone ginger

pinecone ginger (usually uncountable, plural pinecone gingers)

Any of several species of ginger with pinecone-like flower heads, but especially the shampoo ginger (Zingiber zerumbet).


lesser galangal

Alpinia officinarum
Alpinia officinarum#Translingual

A plant (Alpinia officinarum) related to galangal (Alpinia galanga), with similar uses and flavor.


fingerroot

Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with finger-like roots used as a spice.


mango ginger

Curcuma amada, a plant related to turmeric, but with a mango-like flavor and aroma.


torch ginger

torch ginger (countable and uncountable, plural torch gingers)

A Southeast Asian tropical plant related to ginger, of species Etlingera elatior (syn. Phaeomeria magnifica), with pink buds used as a seasoning and spectacular red flowers.


kahili ginger

A plant related to ginger, Hedychium gardnerianum, which is native to the Himalayas but widely grown elsewhere in warm climates due to its showy flowers, and which can be seriously invasive away from its native range.


shell ginger

shell ginger (usually uncountable, plural shell gingers)

An East Asian plant related to ginger, Alpinia zerumbet, grown for its showy flowers, which are shell-pink on the outside and intensely orange and red on the inside.


red ginger

red ginger (usually uncountable, plural red gingers)

A Malaysian plant related to ginger, if species Alpinia purpurata, grown for its showy red flower spikes.


spiral ginger

spiral ginger (countable and uncountable, plural spiral gingers)

A Costa Rican tropical plant distantly related to ginger, Costus barbatus, which is grown for its showy red flowerheads.


prayer plant

The way the leaves close and raise upward at night is said to be reminiscent of hands in prayer

A tropical Brazilian plant related to arrowroot, Maranta leuconeura, grown as a houseplant for its attractive foliage.


pinang

A palm of the genus Nenga, endemic to Southeast Asia.


meadow barley

meadow barley (usually uncountable, plural meadow barleys)

Hordeum brachyantherum, a species of barley.


corn chip

A snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop.


puffcorn

She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.

2006, Peyton Mathie, chapter 27, in Hayden's Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 69:

Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.

2010, Food & Beverage Market Place, Grey House Publishing, volume 1, 1127:

Suddenly, something Henry said caught my attention. “Where'd you get these boxes of puffcorn?” he asked. “This stuff has no taste at all!”

2012, Kris Vallotton, chapter 9, in Spirit Wars: Winning the Invisible Battle Against Sin and the Enemy, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 137:

A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.


toetoe

(New Zealand) Certain grasses and sedges native to New Zealand:

Any of the species Gahnia setifolia of sedges

Any of the species Cyperus ustulatus of sedges


moriche palm

A palm tree of species Mauritia flexuosa, native to tropical South America.


buriti

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese buriti.


nikau

(New Zealand) Rhopalostylis sapida, a palm tree of New Zealand.


chloridoid

An upper bound of 19 mya was placed at the stem Chloridoideae node using a chloridoid phytolith fossil [ 47 ].

2015 July 11, Joseph L. Cotton et al., “Resolving deep relationships of PACMAD grasses: a phylogenomic approach”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI:

Any grass of the subfamily Chloridoideae


ehrhartoid

The use of the somewhat more closely related ehrhartoid species, Oryza rufipogon, increased the bs value to 76 %.

Any grass of the subfamily Ehrhartoideae (now known as Oryzoideae)


micrairoid

A significant past study on the systematics of Poaceae provided weak support for the sister relationship of Panicoideae to the CMAD clade (bs value: 61 %) as well as between the micrairoid/arundinoid and danthonioid/chloridoid clades (bs values: 51 %).

Any grass of the subfamily Micrairoideae, native to Australia.


panicoid

The crown panicoid divergence date of 20.24 [7.9, 36.8] mya for set one and 23.61[8.2, 36.8] mya for set two is also of note.


pupunha

From Portuguese pupunha, from Old Tupi [Term?].


Patna rice

en-noun

Patna rice (countable and uncountable, plural Patna rices)

A mild-flavoured long-grain white rice, a variety of Oryza sativa, extensively cultivated around Patna in India.


kittul

kittul (countable and uncountable, plural kittuls)

From Sinhalese කිතුල් (kitul, “jaggery”).

A palm of species Caryota urens, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that yields a sap from which sugar can be made.


Napier grass

Napier grass (countable and uncountable, plural Napier grasses)

Pennisetum purpureum, a perennial tropical grass native to Africa.


elephant grass

elephant grass (countable and uncountable, plural elephant grasses)

Synonym of Napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum)


buffelgrass

buffelgrass (usually uncountable, plural buffelgrasses)

Via Afrikaans, ultimately from Dutch buffel (“buffalo”).

Bo spotted a scrub turkey standing head high in the buffel grass.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 34:

Some other people had a different reaction and gambled by the light of kerosene lanterns on the spare allotment covered in buffel grass at the back of the pub […].

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 79:

The African perennial grass Cenchrus ciliaris.


shogaol

shogaol (usually uncountable, plural shogaols)

From Japanese 生姜 (“ginger”) and suffix -ol.

(organic chemistry) A pungent constituent of ginger, similar in chemical structure to gingerol.


midgrass

midgrass (countable and uncountable, plural midgrasses)

In the immediate future, it would be interesting to study covariation in the composition and structure of grasslands with rainfall, apparent moisture availability, soil mineral nutrients, and SMI across the continental gradient from desert grasslands through shortgrass, midgrass, and tallgrass prairies in central North America.

2015 September 15, “Relative Roles of Soil Moisture, Nutrient Supply, Depth, and Mechanical Impedance in Determining Composition and Structure of Wisconsin Prairies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(often attributive) Grass that is neither particularly short or tall.


washingtonia

(botany) Any fan palm of the genus Washingtonia.


rosha grass

rosha grass (usually uncountable, plural rosha grasses)

I believe that attention paid to the cultivation of Rosha grass would prove remunerative — there are many of these articles of minor forest produce, only awaiting exploitation: the gradual increase in the use of the bark of the "tarwad" (Cassia auriculata) is a case in point.

1889, The Indian Forester, volume 15, page 379:

A rose-scented grass used in perfume, Cymbopogon martinii


devil grass

devil grass (usually uncountable, plural devil grasses)


dogtooth grass

Any grass in the genus Cynodon, especially Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon.


zebra plant

Any of several species of tropical plants with contrasting patterns of light and dark on their leaves, which are grown as houseplants, especially:

Calathea zebrina (syn. Goeppertia zebrina)


mapanioid

Calibration of this analysis was achieved using a selection of fossils [72 –80 ] employed in previous dating analyses [78 ,79 ,81 ,82 ], plus a recently described mapanioid sedge fossil [83 ].

2015 October 1, “Dated Plant Phylogenies Resolve Neogene Climate and Landscape Evolution in the Cape Floristic Region”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any sedge of the subfamily Mapanioideae.


three sisters

A calque from an Iroquoian language, compare Mohawk áhsen nikontatenò:sen, Oneida áshʌnaɂtekutahnú·tele, and Onondaga ahsę́ naˀdegųdęhnų́·dæ·ˀ.
First attested in 1850 in the context of Iroquoian mythology (see quote below). Use in reference to the plants themselves first attested in the 1890s (see also below).

One beautiful idea relates to the corn, beans and squashes, all indigenous plants which are called three sisters as well as their life or supporters. The thought is a happy one, for they grow together, and were always important in Indian life.

[1892, William M. Beauchamp, “Iroquois Stories”, in The Iroquois Trail, or Footprints of the Six Nations, […] , Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, →LCCN, page 128:

The three sisters work together as companion plants in many ways. Growing wide-spreading pumpkin vine among vertically oriented corn and beans saves space.

2012, Gail Damerow, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

She gave me specifics on what to plant and the layout of the garden. Traditional Native American plants, heirloom varieties only, no GMOs allowed. Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.

2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151:

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

(US, Canada, agriculture, horticulture) The combination of maize (corn), pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris or climbing beans, string beans, etc.), and squash (i.e. pumpkin), especially when planted together in intertwined plantings.


matgrass

matgrass (countable and uncountable, plural matgrasses)

Nardus stricta
Nardus stricta#Translingual

(Australia) Spinifex hirsutus (rolling grass)

Polygonum aviculare
Polygonum aviculare#Translingual

Polygonum aviculare (common knotgrass) and other closely related plants


ricegrass

ricegrass (countable and uncountable, plural ricegrasses)

From rice + grass, from its resemblance to true rice.

Any of the genus Oryzopsis of Chinese and North American plants in the grass family.

Indian ricegrass

Eriocoma hymenoides, syn. Oryzopsis hymenoides


kobresia

Alpine meadows, primarily composed of Sichuan kobresia (Kobresia setchwanensis) made up a smaller proportion of the tree-line mosaic.

2016 January 20, “Effects of Supplementary Feeding on the Breeding Ecology of the Buff-Throated Partridge in a Tibetan Sacred Site, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(botany) Any member of the genus Kobresia of plants in the sedge family.


hardgrass

hardgrass (usually uncountable, plural hardgrasses)

Any of the genus Sclerochloa of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family.


danthonia

(botany) Any of the genus Danthonia of Eurasian, North African, and American grasses.


chiquichiqui palm

chiquichiqui palm (plural chiquichiqui palms)

Bactris speciosa, a South and Central American palm tree from which fiber is obtained.


broomcorn millet

broomcorn millet (usually uncountable, plural broomcorn millets)

Panicum miliaceum
Panicum miliaceum#Translingual


common millet

common millet (usually uncountable, plural common millets)

Synonym of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)

Setaria italica
Setaria italica#Translingual

(less common, esp. in older literature) Synonym of foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Cenchrus americanus
Cenchrus americanus#Translingual

Pennisetum glaucum
Pennisetum glaucum#Translingual

(less common, esp. in older literature) Synonym of pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum))


hog millet

hog millet (usually uncountable, plural hog millets)


white millet

white millet (usually uncountable, plural white millets)

proso millet, brown millet, Chinese millet, common millet, French millet, little millet, millet panic, panicum millet, red millet, white French millet (Panicum miliaceum)

Japanese barnyard millet, Japanese millet (Echinochloa esculenta )

Indian barnyard millet, Siberian millet, sawa millet, white panicum, white-panic (Echinochloa frumentacea)


hairgrass

hairgrass (countable and uncountable, plural hairgrasses)

Any of various grasses thought to resemble hair, including those of genera Aira, Deschampsia, Koeleria, and others.

Any of certain species of sedge in the genus Eleocharis.


hairy panic

A grass, Panicum effusum, native to Australia.


stickaburr

So, too, it’s oddly redolent of the Monkees, neighborhood stickaburr fights and going to the stock car races at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H.

2009 March 26, Dana Jennings, “With a Buzz Cut, I Can Take on Anything”, in New York Times:


sarpat

Borrowed from Hindi सरपत (sarpat), from Sanskrit शर (śara, “arrow, reed”) + पत्त्र (pattra, “leaf”).

Any of several species of sugarcane or sugarcane-like grasses found in India, of the genera Saccharum and Tripidium.


wild turmeric

A species of turmeric, Curcuma aromatica.


jasmine rice

jasmine rice (usually uncountable, plural jasmine rices)

A type of fragrant long-grain rice grown in Southeast Asia (Oryza sativa Indica Group).


kokama

I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.

Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.

1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, →ISBN, page 140:

In addition, black (or purple) corn, known as kokoma, or Masau'u's corn, symbolically representing the direction of Above, is planted in May for the fall havest.

2011, Gary A. David, The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore, →ISBN:

Among just five families, Whiting found the following grops were still grown on a regular basis: yellow, red, blue, white, violet, pink, and speckled flour and flint corns; purple-backed kokama corn; sweet corn; shite and gray lima beans; white and blue string beans; grease beans; pole beans; white tepary beans; peanuts; watermelons; casaba melons; honeydew melons; muskmelons; banana squash; cushaw squash; Hubbard squash; cucumbers; onions; chilies; tomatoes; turnips; red dye amaranths; cabbages; peaches; pears; apricots; apples; grapes; and cherries.

2012, Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, →ISBN, page 133:

A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.

Kokoma or guinea grass (Rottboelia exaltata) is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage.

1954, Stephen John Watson, Abstracts on the Conservation of Grass and Other Forage Crops Up to 1939:

However, 10 of the 18 places are filled by grass species: 2 Cynodon dactylon (couch grass), 2 Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass), 4 Echinochloa colona (awnless barnyard grass(, 5 Eleusine indica (crowsfoot grass), 6 Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass(, 7 Imperata cylindricata (blady grass), 11 Digitaria sanguinalis (summer grass), 13 Avena fatua (wild oat), 17 Paspalum conjugatum (sourgrass) and 18 Rottboellia cochinchinensis (kokoma grass).

2001, Charles A. Lamp, Stephen J. Forbes, J. W. Cade, Grasses of Temperate Australia: A Field Guide, page 17:

A variety of grass Rottboellia cochinchinensis.


triodia

A few of the triodias are good forage grasses, but others are of little value.

(botany) Any grass of the genus Triodia.


purpletop

purpletop (usually uncountable, plural purpletops)

The plant Tridens flavus, a robust North American perennial bunchgrass.


greasegrass

From grease + grass, because of its oily seeds.


bristlegrass

bristlegrass (countable and uncountable, plural bristlegrasses)

Any of various grasses of the genus Setaria.


black bamboo

black bamboo (countable and uncountable, plural black bamboos)

Phyllostachys nigra
Phyllostachys nigra#Translingual

Phyllostachys nigra, native to Hunan province in China and widely cultivated, used for lumber as well as in gardens.


annual ryegrass

annual ryegrass (countable and uncountable, plural annual ryegrasses)

Any of various species of ryegrass, including:

(US, UK, Canada) Lolium multiflorum, grown as a cover crop


blackgin

From black + Dharug dyin (“woman”) (David Nash, "Placenames evidence for NSW pidgin" in Felicity Meakins, Carmel O'Shannessy (eds) Loss and Renewal: Australian Languages Since Colonization, Walter de Gruyter, 2016, p.133.) https://books.google.ca/books?id=spjUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=%22blackgin%22&source=bl&ots=PAH4wZMnI1&sig=6pQWiSTFpQV6FcU9ZFhRzaTkbbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim-YfEg9vMAhUK-GMKHccqA_0Q6AEI5AEwLw#v=onepage&q=%22blackgin%22&f=false

[…] a man has got to go on day after day, week after week, year after year, fighting devils of loneliness and worse—with nothing to look at except miles and miles of stark staring gum trees and black, smelling gidgee and dead-finish scrub—and never the glimpse of a woman—not counting black gins—to remind him he once had a mother and might have a wife.

1915, Rosa Praed, chapter 7, in Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: A Story of Australian Life, London: Hutchinson:

Anna was of a lower caste than Nawnim. Her father was a Japanese. Therefore, according to the Law of the Land, which recognized no diluent for Aboriginal blood but that of a white race, she was a full-blooded blackgin and not entitled to franchise as Nawnim theoretically would be when he came of age.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 73:

(Australia, derogatory) An Aboriginal woman.


yellow bristle grass

yellow bristle grass (countable and uncountable, plural yellow bristle grasses)

Grass of several grass species, including:

Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum; pearl millet)

For the numerous taxonomic synonyms see [ Pennisetum glaucum] at The Plant List


bog cotton

From its resemblance to cotton and its typical bog habitat.


umbrella grass

umbrella grass (countable and uncountable, plural umbrella grasses)

Any of several species of grasses and sedges:

Chloris truncata, a grass, early chloris (Australia), Australian finger grass, star grass, windmill grass.

Digitaria divaricatissima, a grass, spreading umbrella grass, spider-panic.

Many species of the grass genus Enteropogon, such as Enteropogon acicularis.

Several species of the sedge genus Fuirena.


sticker grass

sticker grass (countable and uncountable, plural sticker grasses)

Certain bur-producing plants
Various species of genus Cenchrus


porcupine grass

porcupine grass (countable and uncountable, plural porcupine grasses)

Any of several grasses with barbed leaves or seeds:

Miscanthus sinensis (Chinese silver grass, zebra grass)

Miscanthus sinensis
Miscanthus sinensis#Translingual


halfa

Synonym of esparto (“North African grass”)


dallisgrass

After A. T. Dallis, a farmer of Georgia (US), who grew the species.

Any of the grasses in the genus Paspalum.


miracle berry

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Certain plants and their fruit that make sour foods taste sweet, native to west Africa, of species:

Synsepalum dulcificum, which contain miraculin;


kaempferia

(botany) Any of the genus Kaempferia of plants in the ginger family, native to Asia.


black rice

black rice (usually uncountable, plural black rices)

A type of rice of the species Oryza sativa L. which is black or dark purple in colour and often glutinous.


Cavendish banana

Cavendish banana (plural Cavendish bananas)

Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

The Cavendish banana that is so popular in North America and Europe can be thought of as a lucky accident because it produces no pollen or seeds from which it can reproduce.

2005, Rachel Eagen, The Biography of Bananas, Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 11:

Musa acuminata
Musa acuminata#Translingual

A banana of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.


brachypodium

Then there are the brachypodiums found abundantly in semi-shaded positions, whose awned spikelets are suspended from the gracefully sagging, thin branchings of the panicles, and the elegant glycerias found in damp places.

1957, The Bulletin of the Hardy Plant Society, volumes 1-5, page 26:

These results suggest that CG methylation acts in some unknown way to limit methylation in the other contexts, at least in brachypodium.

2016 March 8, “CG Methylation Covaries with Differential Gene Expression between Leaf and Floral Bud Tissues of Brachypodium distachyon”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


wall barley

wall barley (usually uncountable, plural wall barleys)


purple rice

purple rice (usually uncountable, plural purple rices)


canegrass

canegrass (usually uncountable, plural canegrasses)


grain of paradise

grain of paradise (plural grains of paradise)

Aframomum melegueta
Aframomum melegueta#Translingual

(rare, usually in the plural) A seed of Aframomum melegueta.


sugar palm

Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:

Caryota urens (fishtail palm, sago palm, toddy palm, wine palm)


secalotricum

secalotricum (countable and uncountable, plural secalotricums)

The tetraploid secalotricums were characterized by a considerable cytological stability, as only 15.10 to 17.68% of the tetrads had micronuclei.

2002, J. Stoinova, “Genome Analysis and Meiotic Behaviour of New Tetraploid Secalotricum Forms”, in Cytologia, volume 67, number 3:

Kretovich was involved in a comparative study of the proteins of wheat, rye, and the first rye–wheat hybrid, bred by Academician GK Meister—the amphidiploid secalotricum.

2007 May, A.F. Topunov, “To the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vaclaw Leonovich Kretovich”, in Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, volume 43, number 3:

In some embodiments, techniques and methods useful herein may produce secalotricum in which rye cytoplasm and it is used with wheat pollen to produce triticale.

2013, D. Penner, M. Simarmata, Glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (epsp) synthase: US Patent App. 13/772,007:

A hybrid of wheat and rye, similar to triticale but using rye as the cytoplasm donor.


crowfootgrass

Eleusine indica
Eleusine indica#Translingual


calathea

Even the plants look expensive. A humidifier hisses beneath her calatheas.

2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 11:

(botany) Any of the genus Calathea of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae.


feterita

feterita (countable and uncountable, plural feteritas)


lontar

From Balinese lontar, Indonesian lontar, from Old Javanese rontal.

The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved.

1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 128:

The technology of lontar writing in Bali, on the other hand, has never severely impeded the circulation of texts.

2000, Raechelle Rubinstein, Beyond the Realm of the Senses, page 26:

palm-leaf manuscript
palm-leaf manuscript

The palmyra or leaves of this tree as used for palm-leaf manuscripts in parts of Indonesia and Malaysia.


Ravenna grass

Saccharum ravennae, a sugarcane native to southern Europe and western Asia, and known in North America as an invasive weed.


common wheat

Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum#Translingual

Triticum aestivum, a widely cultivated wheat species.


ripgut brome

A type of weedy grass, Bromus diandrus, with sharp seeds having awns with one-way bristles that make them hard to remove from clothing or animal fur.


smooth brome

smooth brome (usually uncountable, plural smooth bromes)

A perennial grass native to Eurasia, Bromus inermis, widely planted elsewhere as a hay or pasture crop, but also known as an invasive weed outside its native range.


bunny grass

The grass was so green that it looked like the artificial Easter bunny grass that Dory had bought each year to fill her children's baskets with.

2009, D. J. Desai, Dory's "Oh My God!" Stories, →ISBN, page 137:

Using cellophane bunny grass, particularly the iridescent kind, is an effective way to give the impression of splashing water.

2013, Nancy C. Townley, Stephanie Davis, Altars for Everyone: Worship Designs on Any Budget, →ISBN, page 73:

I pile mounds of bunny grass—the kind you put in Easter baskets—and top them with papiermâché rabbits.

2017, Patricia Altschul, Deborah Davis, The Art of Southern Charm, →ISBN:


bussu

The Bussú, like the Hemp Palm, and the Coco-nut Palm, affords an excellent, durable, ready made cloth.

1864, Sophy Moody, The Palm Tree, →OCLC, page 291:

For here the palms hold court; nowhere else on the broad earth is their glory unveiled as we see it: soft, plumy Jupatis dropping over the water, and fairy-light assaiso and bussús with their light-green vase-like forms, and great noble fan-leaved miritis looking down from their eighty-feet high columns, and others that we hardly notice at first, though they are nobles in their race.

1879, “The Mediterranean of America”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 18, page 193:


ensete

ensete (countable and uncountable, plural ensetes)

From Ge'ez እንሰት (inset, “the false banana Ensete ventricosum; ensete”).

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[T]he figs of the Enſete are not eatable; they are of a tender, ſoft ſubstance; watery, taſteleſs, and in colour and conſiſtence ſimilar to a rotten apricot; they are of a conical form, crooked a little at the lower end, about an inch and a half in length, and an inch in breadth where thickeſt.

1790, [James Bruce], “Ensete”, in Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia, volume V, Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, London, →OCLC, pages 37–38:

Were it not for the enſete, therefore, the Galla would have ſcarce any vegetable food. Mr [James] Bruce thinks that the enſete may have been cultivated in ſome of the gardens of Egypt about Roſetto, but that it was not a native of the country.

1797, “MUSA, the plantain-tree”, in [Colin Macfarquhar], editor, Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; [...] The Third Edition, in Eighteen Volumes, Greatly Improved, volume XII (Mill to Negropont), Edinburgh: Printed for A[ndrew] Bell and C[olin] Macfarquhar, →OCLC, page 469, column 1:

On the way I saw, for the first time, Enset, a nice plant, which is described in [James] Bruce's Travels. The Abyssinians use it in baking bread, which is wrapped in it, and gives to it a particular scent, which I do not like.

1843, [Karl Wilhelm Isenberg; Johann Ludwig Krapf], James Macqueen, chapter III, in Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing Their Proceedings in the Kingdom of Shoa, and Journeys in Other Parts of Abyssinia, in the Years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. To which is Prefixed, a Geographical Memoir of Abyssinia and South-eastern Africa, by James M‘Queen, Esq. Grounded on the Missionaries’ Journals, and the Expedition of the Pacha of Egypt up the Nile, London: Seely, Burnside, and Seely, Fleet Street, London, →OCLC, page 79:

Here, among his Cycads and his Orchids, his Ensetes and his Dracænas, spade in hand, a wideawake hat on his head, a rare flower in his button-hole, and rustic contentment irradiating his face—here, amid scenery which typifies a botanist's paradise, Sir John Kirk is emphatically At Home.

1886, H[arry] H[amilton] Johnston, “Sir John Kirk at Home”, in The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1, Paternoster Square, →OCLC, page 39:

Another instance of religious influence on diversity of cultivars is found in Ethiopia, where the Ari people cultivate ensete, a relative of the banana (Shigeta 1990). Ensete leaves are used for wrapping, thatching, ground cover for sitting, containers, dresses, ornamentation at funerals and weddings, and shading from sun and rain.

2004, Stephen B. Brush, Farmers’ Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World (Yale Agrarian Studies Series), New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN:

Ensete ventricosum
Ensete ventricosum#Translingual

Ensete ventricosum, a species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae, the root of which is used for food and other purposes.


wind-grass

(New Zealand) Several species of Lachnagrostis

Any of a number of grasses:
Several species of Lachnagrostis


horsetooth

What determined the success of his business was[…]a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year[…].

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62:

A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.


hookgrass

Any of several species of sedge in the genus Uncinia the seeds of which are hooked and attach themselves to passers-by.


brachiaria

The brachiaria is made to germinate and emerge later than the maize, either by delaying its planting or by planting it deeper.

2011, Advances in Agronomy, volume 91, page 88:

The expert said that what a dairy cow needs is Kikuyu grass which has about 22 per cent nutritional value, brachiaria, rhodes or star grass (13 percent), napier grass in that order of nutritional value.

2017 July 19, “Lessons galore in fifth farmers’ clinic”, in Daily Nation:


patican

The Philippine fishtail palm (Caryota cumingii).


hulled wheat

en-noun

hulled wheat (countable and uncountable, plural hulled wheats)

free-threshing wheat

antonym(s) of “wheat that needs post-threshing processing”

Triticum monococcum
Triticum monococcum#Translingual

Any of certain species of wheat that need to be processed after threshing to remove the inedible glumes or hulls from the heads.


henon bamboo

Phyllostachys nigra f. henonis, a cultivated form of black bamboo.


hom mali rice

hom mali rice (usually uncountable, plural hom mali rices)

From Thai ข้าวหอมมะลิ (kâao-hɔ̌ɔm-má-lí).

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Thai ข้าวหอมมะลิ (kâao-hɔ̌ɔm-má-lí)


Guinea arrowroot

An ancient Caribbean and South American root crop, Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), with crisp, starchy tubers that taste somewhat like sweet corn.


apple banana

A type of small-fruited banana with a sweet, tangy flavor (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana).


red banana

A type of banana with short, plump red-skinned fruit having a soft texture and sweet flavor.


camia

Hedychium coronarium
Hedychium coronarium#Translingual

Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae.


small carpetgrass

Arthraxon hispidus
Arthraxon hispidus#Translingual

Arthraxon hispidus, native to east Asia, invasive in the US.


blue grama

en-noun

blue grama (usually uncountable, plural blue gramas)

A species of perennial grass, Bouteloua gracilis, native to inland parts of the western and central United States into neighboring areas of Mexico and Canada, especially the northern Great Plains.


blue threeawn

blue threeawn (usually uncountable, plural blue threeawns)

A perennial bunchgrass native to the southwestern and south-central US into northern Mexico, Aristida purpurea var. nealleyi (formerly known as Aristida glauca).


threeawn

threeawn (usually uncountable, plural threeawns)


brownseed paspalum

brownseed paspalum (usually uncountable, plural brownseed paspalums)

A perennial grass native to the subtropical and tropical parts of the Americas and grown elsewhere for pasture and hay, Paspalum plicatulum


bush muhly

A perennial bunchgrass native to the southwestern US and northern Mexico, Muhlenbergia porteri


cane beardgrass

Synonym of cane bluestem (Bothriochloa barbinodis).


cane bluestem

cane bluestem (usually uncountable, plural cane bluestems)

A coarse, upright perennial bunchgrass native to dry areas from the southwestern US to South America; Bothriochloa barbinodis.


beardgrass

beardgrass (usually uncountable, plural beardgrasses)

Any of a number of grasses with beard-like inflorescences or other structures, especially those currently or formerly classified in the genus Andropogon


riceberry

Dark purple riceberry bran contains a higher dietary fiber and antioxidant compounds than unpigmented rice bran.

2013 January, P Prangthip, R Surasiang, R Charoensiri, V Leardkamolkam, S Komindr, U Yamborisut, A Vaavichit, R Kongkachuichai, “Amelioration of hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, oxidative stress and inflammation in steptozotocin^([sic])-induced diabetic rats fed a high fat diet by riceberry supplement”, in Journal of Functional Foods, volume 5, number 1:

A variety of brown rice with a deep purple color that was created by Rice Science Center, Kasetsart University, Thailand.


Indian ricegrass

Indian ricegrass (usually uncountable, plural Indian ricegrasses)

A bunchgrass and wild grain native to Western North America (Eriocoma hymenoides, syn. Oryzopsis hymenoides).


kentjur

Any of a number of flowering plants in the Zingiberaceae family, native to Asia, and having rhizomes used as spices.


white turmeric

Curcuma zedoaria
Curcuma zedoaria#Translingual

zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), an herb with edible rhizomes.


vriesea

T. multicaulis at first sight might be mistaken for a vriesea, for its soft lettuce-green foliage is typical of that of most vrieseas.

1981, Victoria Padilla, The colorful bromeliads: their infinite variety, page 18:


bur-reed

From bur (“prickly husk of a small seed”) + reed (“type of tall, thin grass”).

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A group (genus Sparganium) of widespread flowering perennial marsh plants widespread in wet areas in temperate regions.


traveller's palm

en-noun

traveller's palm (plural traveller's palms)

A tropical plant, Ravenala madagascariensis (not a true palm), native to Madagascar but grown elsewhere for its distinctive appearance: banana-like leaves are arranged in a flat, fan-like pattern atop a palm-like trunk.


chonta

Any of various palm trees, such as Juania australis and Astrocaryum species.


bromelia

The road from the harbour to Trinidad de Cuba is bordered by hedges of bromelias enclosing fields and plantations; and among the bromelias are seen many plants of Erythrìna Crísta gálli, and a small fan-palm[…]

1842, The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, volume VIII, London, page 285:

Mexico is also the home of the beautiful flowering Echeveriæ, and of many bromelias, among which the Ananassa sativa is not the least important, and many liliaceous trees (Dasylirion and Yucca)[…]groups of many thousand palm trees are frequently to be seen; and among their stems, draped with bromelias, orchids, aroids, and other plants, the travellers like to select a place to pitch their tent, choosing by preference the Attalea spectabilis and Maximiliana princeps.

1881, J. Minshull, transl., Land, Sea and Sky, or, Wonders of Life and Nature. A Description of the Physical Geography and Organic Life of the Earth., London: Ward, Lock, & Co., translation of original by Dr. Herman, J. Klein, and Dr. Thomé, pages 701 and 751:

[…]in general it may be said that the moderately wet and wet forest area above 2,200 feet is without standing water except in the bromelias.[…]It is clear that the bromelias must be considered a minor habitat for the groups under consideration. The Bromeliaciae are in general an important habitat in the wet forest above 4,500 feet.

1922, Alexander G[rant] Ruthven, The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, pages 42–43:

A chapter is devoted to the special cultivation methods of some ornamentals (e.g. Bonsai, Bromelias, Cactuses, Orchideas), as well as to the arrangement of inner spaces, hobby greenhouses and indoor glass cabinets, and to indoor plant protection.

1989, Acta Agronomica Hungarica, page 182:


dogstail

dogstail (countable and uncountable, plural dogstails)

Any perennial grass of the genus Cynosurus, native to the Mediterranean basin, grown for fodder


scrobic

A vigorous, tufted (up to 60 cm diameter) and slender perennial grass (Paspalum scrobiculatum) growing to a height of 0.3-1 m.


mountain rice

An awnless rice grown without irrigation on the Himalayas, etc.


queen pineapple

queen pineapple (plural queen pineapples)


ribbon cane

ribbon cane (countable and uncountable, plural ribbon canes)

The ribbon cane […] is called by the French rouge et d’or, being longitudinally striped yellow and deep red. It grows as high as the Bourbon, but is slenderer, and of course resists wind less.

1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 2, Letter 18, p. 336:

Say, Matt, gimme a jint or two of dat green cane—dis ribbon cane is hard.

1930, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, HarperCollins, published 1991, act I, page 49:

“We’ll grow fine ribbon cane here. The soil is perfect for it. We’ll have all the sugar we want. But we must be patient.”

1944, Katherine Anne Porter, “The Old Order”, in The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 55:

The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.

1966, J. J. Phillips, chapter 1, in Mojo Hand, Berkeley: City Miner Books, published 1985, page 8:

His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.

1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52:

(Southern US) Sugar cane; specifically, striped varieties of sugar cane grown in the southern United States.


Indian saffron

From being a spice from the Indian subcontinent that is similar to saffron.


button grass

[T]he ceiling swelled in waves like an ocean, like a buttongrass plain, like the pocked earth stripped of its trees […].

1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 75, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, pages 377–378:

Button-grass plains grew in peaty soil to the water's edge.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 73

(chiefly Australia) Any of several grasses with round or globular flower heads; especially Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, a tussock-forming sedge especially of western Tasmania, forming distinct plains; and Dactyloctenium radulans, an annual grass of mainland Australia.


stiltgrass

stiltgrass (countable and uncountable, plural stiltgrasses)

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


switch cane

A bamboo native to the Southeastern United States, Arundinaria tecta or Arundinaria gigantea.


bogrush

Any of several sedges of the genus Schoenus.


tobosagrass

tobosagrass (countable and uncountable, plural tobosagrasses)

The perennial North American grass Pleuraphis mutica


sea rush

A rush of the genus Juncus: a waterside plant with slender stem-like pith-filled leaves that grows on coastlines.


sparganium

(botany) Any of the plants of the genus Sparganium.


stinkgrass

stinkgrass (countable and uncountable, plural stinkgrasses)


Baltic rush

A widespread Eurasian and North American species of rush, Juncus balticus


basket rush

(California) A rush native to southern California, of species Juncus textilis, traditionally used by the local Indians to make baskets.


sharp rush

Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus#Translingual

A widespread species of rush, Juncus effusus.


heath rush

Juncus squarrosus, a rush in the family Juncaceae.


spiked woodrush

Luzula spicata, a flowering plant in the family Juncaceae.


common woodrush

Luzula multiflora, a flowering plant in the family Juncaceae.


heath woodrush

Synonym of common woodrush (Luzula multiflora)


curved woodrush

Luzula arcuata, a flowering plant in the family Juncaceae.


northern woodrush

Luzula confusa, a flowering plant in the family Juncaceae.


meadow grass

meadow grass (countable and uncountable, plural meadow grasses)


cone wheat

cone wheat (countable and uncountable, plural cone wheats)

Triticum turgidum
Triticum turgidum#Translingual

Triticum turgidum, a variety of wheat with a conical spike.


kangaroo grass

kangaroo grass (usually uncountable, plural kangaroo grasses)

They walked through plains of silver tussock and kangaroo grass and pines 200 feet high, and discovered a pair of lakes that Laycock named “Kemp's Lakes” (now Lakes Sorell and Crescent).

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 51

The kangaroo grass in the Colac region of Western Victoria was so high it concealed the flocks of the first settler, G.T. Lloyd.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 23:

(Australia) Any of various tussocky grasses of the genus Themeda, especially Themeda triandra.


fox's foot

From Middle English foxesfot, from Old English foxes fōt, equivalent to fox's + foot.

A type of bur-reed (Sparganium simplex) native to North America and Eurasia.


oatgrass

oatgrass (countable and uncountable, plural oatgrasses)

Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Arrhenatherum species

Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Avenula species

Danthonia californica, California oatgrass

Any of various grasses resembling oats:
Trisetum species


Khorasan wheat

Khorasan wheat is another ancient wheat that probably evolved as a hybrid of other grasses. Its exact origins are unknown, but appear to be in the Middle East. Unlike other ancient wheats, however, the grain is not enclosed in a hull.

2015, Emma Borghesi, The Beans & Grains Bible, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

An ancient tetraploid species or subspecies of wheat (Triticum turanicum), historically cultivated in Central Asia.


spikerush

spikerush (countable and uncountable, plural spikerushes)


coquito palm

Jubaea chilensis, the Chilean palm tree that bears coquito nuts.


burrograss

A North American grass of the genus Scleropogon


manicole

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English manicole, from Lokono manaka. The English word is cognate with Tariana mánaka, Yucuna manakóla.

Next to the mangrove and mora, the most abundant vegetation is supplied by palms of various species. Of these the manicole palm (Euterpe edulis) is the most prominent, [...] Indeed, the dense "bush" there consists almost entirely of enormous numbers of manicoles [...]

1883 December, [Everard Ferdinand im Thurn], “Between the Pomeroon and the Orinoco”, in E. F. im Thurn, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume II, part II, Demerara: J. Thomson, →OCLC, pages 230–231:

A house fifty feet by twenty, built in the usual style, wattled with manicoles, thatched with dallabana leaves, with sleeping rooms upstairs, could be built for fifty dollars, materials and labour included.

1883 December, Alexander Winter, “The Berbice and Its Tributaries”, in E[verard] F[erdinand] im Thurn, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume II, part II, Demerara: J. Thomson, →OCLC, pages 301–302:

Arawak males employ the leaf of the manicole palm (Euterpe oleracea) for similar purposes of temporary expediency, in at least four different ways, [...]

1911, Walter E[dmund] Roth, “Some Technological Notes from the Pomeroon District, British Guiana. (Part III.)”, in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume XLI, London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72:

No differences were observed between seedlings of the three clustered manicole varieties.

1998, Tulemore Ruth van Andel, Palm Heart Harvesting in Guyana’s North-west District: Exploitation and Regeneration of Euterpe Oleracea Swamps (Tropenbos-Guyana Reports; 98-1), Georgetown, Guyana: Tropenbos-Guyana Programme; Utrecht: Herbarium Utrecht University, →OCLC:

Palm heart is harvested from the manicole palm, Euterpe oleracea, in the Guyana Northwest. [...] The GFC [Guyana Forestry Commission] annually reports the productions of manicole palm heart and mangrove bark. For manicole, 2.7 million pieces (palm-hearts or "stems") were produced in 2008, as well as 12,619 pieces of mangrove bark.

2009, Jorge Trevin, Robert Nasi, “Non-timber Forest Products (NTFP)”, in Forest Law Enforcement and Governance and Forest Practices in Guyana, Bogor Barat, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research, pages 22–23:

Euterpe oleracea
Euterpe oleracea#Translingual

(Guyana) A palm tree of the genus Euterpe which is native to Central America, South America, and the West Indies; especially the açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea).

For theſe erections [huts] not more than two articles are wanting; the firſt the manicole, by the French called latanie, and here paraſalla, or the pine-tree; and the ſecond the nebees, called by the French liannes, by the Spaniards bejucos, and in Surinam tay-tay. The manicole-tree, which is of the palm-tree ſpecies, is moſtly found in marſhy places, and is always a proof of a rich and luxurious ſoil.

[1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter X, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume I, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, pages 230–231:

Prestoea tenuiramosa [...] "Manicole palm" (Guy[ana]), "manacachilla" (Ven[ezuela]).

1995, Andrew Henderson, Gloria Galeano, Rodrigo Bernal, “Prestoea”, in Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128, column 2:

Pretoea tenuiramosa (Dammer) [...] manicole prestoea, manicole palm

2013, M[iroslav] M. Grandtner, Julien Chevrette, compilers, Dictionary of Trees: Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, Taxonomy and Ecology: […], Amsterdam, Boston, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, paragraph 12967, page 533, column 1:

The structure [the Umana Yana] was erected some 43 years ago. The historic, thatched-roof benab served as a leading centre for cultural events in the city and its roof, constructed from thatched allibanna and manicole palm leaves, had stretched some 55 feet into the air.

[2015 March 19, “Reconstruction of Umana Yana likely for mid-year start”, in Mark Ramotar, editor, Guyana Chronicle, number 104133, Georgetown, Guyana: Guyana National Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-30, page 13, columns 1–3:

(Guyana, chiefly attributively) The Guyana manicole palm or manacachilla (Prestoea tenuiramosa), a species of palm tree native to South America; also, the wood of this tree.


attap

attap (countable and uncountable, plural attaps)

Nypa fruticans
Nypa fruticans#Translingual

Nipa; a palm tree of the species Nypa fruticans.

(Malaysia, Singapore) Thatch made from leaves of the nipa palm.


Indian millet

Indian millet (countable and uncountable, plural Indian millets)

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual