pampas

Horticultural invasives, such as butterfly bush, English ivy, pampas grass and many other garden favorites that have escaped cultivation, are of increasing concern.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 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

We stood in the shade on a ranch called Los Ombúes, for the wide canopied trees common to the pampas, and watched three gauchos separate cattle, marking those for slaughter with red paint.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

Some made their homes in the river world of the Amazon basin, others struck roots in Andean mountain valleys or the open pampas of Argentina.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

On the flat, humid pampa, as the vast Argentine grasslands around the capital are known, there was still plenty of fierce gaucho pride and patriotism.

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

In prehistoric days, when a vast inland sea occupied what is now the Argentine pampa, Uruguay was the northern shore of the great strait which opened into the pampean sea.

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