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pampas

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


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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

Years ago, when he read Bruce Chatwin’s “In Patagonia,” he retraced the writer’s 168-mile trek across the pampas of South America to the Cave of the Giant Sloth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Outside the city, on the broad and dusty plain of the pampas, is the landscape that provides the country its power.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022

In the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the voyaging Charles Darwin discovered hundreds of square miles strangled by feral artichoke.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

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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