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any monocotyledonous plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), having jointed stems sheathed by long narrow leaves, flowers in spikes, and seedlike fruits. The family includes cereals, bamboo, etc.
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G?nter (Wilhelm) . born 1927, German novelist, dramatist, and poet. His novels include The Tin Drum (1959), Dog Years (1963), The Rat (1986), Toad Croaks (1992), and Crabwalk (2002). Nobel prize for literature 1999
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What does it mean when you dream about grass?

Flowing green grasses, sweeping meadows, or farms suggest an image of peaceful, pastoral lifestyles. The more common grass of suburban lawns can represent domesticity.

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grass

[gras]
(botany)
The common name for all members of the family Gramineae; moncotyledonous plants having leaves that consist of a sheath which fits around the stem like a split tube, and a long, narrow blade.
(electronics)
Clutter due to circuit noise in a radar receiver, seen on an A scope as a pattern resembling a cross section of turf. Also known as hash.
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grass

i. Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube. They are produced by random interference and are so named because of their resemblance to blades of lawn grass.
ii. In radar, a descriptive colloquialism used to refer to the indication of noise on an “A” or a similar type of display.
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A total of 30 samples of elephant grass silage were collected from 27 different silos with 3 kinds of additives, during 3 periods.
(2003) in the interior of Paraiba after ingestion of creeping rivergrass (Echinochloa polystachya) and elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum).
When it was breakable, the banana peel was disintegrated in a stationary forage machine, in order to favor the homogenization of the material in elephant grass ensilage.
Five hundred gram of Ultisol soil was put into 1 kg plastic pot, and then mixed with humic compounds and compost in accordance with the treatment, such as: 50 mL humic compounds of the Centrosema pubescens compost (HKC), 50 mL humic compounds of the elephant grass compost (HKR), 50 mL humic compounds of the chicken manure (HKA), 5 g compost of Centrosema pubescens (parallel with 20 t/ha) (KC), 5 g compost of elephant grass (parallel with 20 t/ha) (KR), 5 g compost of chicken manure (parallel with 20 t/ha) (KA), and control (distilled water) (K0), and then they were incubated for 63 days.
Therefore, nonirrigated (elephant grass, apple guava, and passion fruit) and irrigated (passion fruit, carrot, maize, tomato, and green pepper) stands will show contrasting soil water content and microclimatic conditions that may influence arthropod density.
Elephant grass varieties are commonly used in a cut-and carry system which makes for a feedstock that can be fed in stalls.
(2010c) did not obtain significant phosphorus removal, where the effluent concentration was greater than that of the influent applied to CWS cultured with Tifton and elephant grass for the treatment of dairy wastewater.
Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) had higher (78%) moisture contents than any other grass of this study.
The typical damage caused by this species has often been observed in signal grass and elephant grass pastures, but farmers and agronomists still often do not associate this damage with the causative agent, leading to the use of incorrect tactics to combat the problem.
Their work - called Where The Wild Things Were - is formed by a series of eight metre-high etched stainless steel and composite blades which sway in the wind and evoke the Elephant Grass found in Africa and Asia, an example of the exotic from far-off lands which Salford Quays helped to bring to Manchester.
Bio-coal briquette using elephant grass is very effective.
Topics of the many short communications abstracted here include the ruminal metabolism of soluble rapeseed meal protein in vitro, the adaptation of hepatic glucose uptake and metabolism in growing lambs fed diets unbalanced in energy and nitrogen, and a simulated model of dairy heifer growth and time to mating weight when fed nothing but elephant grass. Only the authors are indexed.
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