Definitions

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

Etymologies

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Latin, reed, also a marine fish, from Ancient Greek.

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Examples

  • Arundo donax, which is a giant, but looks well at the front of a border notwithstanding, and the begonia didn't seem in the least cowed.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Thousands of hours of practice, outrageously expensive highland dress, a quality pipe and yet it all comes down to less than a square inch of arundo donax; if that quits you might as well have stayed home.

    Obituaries John 2008

  • There are 43 different grass species, Imperata cylindrica, Saccharum naranga, Phragmites karka and Arundo donax predominating.

    Manas National Park, India 2008

  • The tall grasses Arundo donax and Phragmites karka (narkot) surround oxbows and lakes.

    Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands 2008

  • Here “green grow the rushes,” especially the big-headed Kasbá (Arundo donax); the yellow-tipped

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • (Arundo donax), its dates and Daums — the two latter often scorched and killed by the careless Bedawi — we struck into a parallel formation, the Wady el Wuday, bone-dry and much trodden by camels.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The "reed" of the Bible, Arundo donax, has been used for 5,000 years to make the vibrating tongues that give clarinets, organs, and other pipe instruments their voice.

    Chapter 11 1993

  • MATZKE, W. (1969) Production of unbleached and bleached pulps from Arundo donax (Giant reed grass).

    Chapter 5 1953

  • SANYAL, A.K. and BHATTACHARYA, S.K. (1969) Arundo donax L. (Graminae): Phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation.

    Chapter 5 1953

  • DUTTA, S.K. and BHATTACHARYA, S.K. (1972) Occurrence of curarimetric indoles in the flowers of Arundo donax.

    Chapter 5 1953

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