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pampas

[pam-puhz, pam-puhs, pahm-pahs] / ˈpæm pəz, ˈpæm pəs, ˈpɑm pɑs /


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On the pampas they may have been equally valued for their relatively fatty meat.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

“Fall is the perfect time to scavenge for materials to use in your décor — pampas grass, pine cones, acorns, bittersweet, pussy willows, branches of leaves, dried hydrangeas, and whatever else you can find.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

He pointed to a cavernous undercut that likely destabilized the bluff and noted the clusters of pampas grass, a fluffy, straw-colored weed that wedges its roots into the rocky cracks and joints.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

His last article for the magazine was about megastorms in the Argentine pampas and won an A.A.A.S.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

People have got it into their heads, through the cinema and the comic advertisements, that knights in armour generally wore ostrich plumes, nodding like stalks of pampas grass.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

All were European technologies or trade goods adapted by locals on the Patagonian pampa.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

The tail zigged and zagged through the wet pampa.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2013

For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds.

From Time Magazine Archive

But most Yankees of the U.S. know less about Latin America's most bustling country, its 13,518,239 people and the riches of its fabulously fertile "humid pampa" than they know about Novosibirsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1580 they controlled the Paraná River from its confluence with the Paraguay to the ocean, had established Santa Fé and Buenos Aires on its right bank, and opened up the southern pampa.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson




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