Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Mexico, the southwestern United States, Guam, and the Philippines, a name applied to grasses, especially to those used for hay or fresh forage. Under this name the rice-grass, Homalocenchrus hexandrus, a grass of Mexican origin, is cultivated in the Philippines for fodder. See
rice-grass .
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Examples
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Samantha Robinson, 12, of Spokane, Washington, competing for the fourth time, misspelled "zacate" (a grassy plant).
The Sportsman's Daily: Trash Talking Contestants Roil 82nd Annual Spelling Bee 2009
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The name El Zacatón comes from the floating islands of grass (zacate) which blow across this lake from one side to the other with the wind.
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The name El Zacatón comes from the floating islands of grass (zacate) which blow across this lake from one side to the other with the wind.
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The hunter-gatherers called zacatecos, after the zacate (straw thatch) that covered the roofs of their conical dwellings, foraged for fruit and edible roots and hunted small animals.
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The hunter-gatherers called zacatecos, after the zacate (straw thatch) that covered the roofs of their conical dwellings, foraged for fruit and edible roots and hunted small animals.
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The hunter-gatherers called zacatecos, after the zacate (straw thatch) that covered the roofs of their conical dwellings, foraged for fruit and edible roots and hunted small animals.
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Central Americans call buzzards zopilotes, grass is zacate and corn isn't just maíz, but elote and some other words, including olote.
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There are four local varieties, all differing in price and excellence; viz., the vanilla _fina_, the _zacate_, the _rezacate_, and the
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The importation of Spanish and Australian horses resulted in failure, because green grass (_zacate_) -- the fodder of Philippine ponies -- was not the diet they had been accustomed to.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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The teachers were irritated over the affair of the _zacate_; the town authorities were dissatisfied with our refusal to pay for two lots of it.
In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895
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