BuffaloGrass may refer to Buffalograss, sweet vernal grass or vanilla grass Anthoxanthum odoratum Buffalograss Bouteloua dactyloides Buffalograss or sweet grass Hierochloe odorata Buffalograss or St. Augustine grass Stenotaphrum secundatum Buffalograss, another name for Guinea grass Panicum maximum disambig ... more details
Cut grass File Uncut grass.JPG thumb right 220px Uncut grass File Pennisetum setaceum flower.jpg thumb 180px right Pennisetum setaceum flowers. File Grass covered house in Iceland 1972.jpg thumb right ... that include grasses that are related to modern rice and bamboo . ref Dinosaurs Dined on Grass by Dolores ... type grass is a valuable source of food and energy for all sorts of wildlife and organics. File Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg thumb left A kangaroo eating grass. Graminoids are the Dominance ecology dominant vegetation ... eat grass as their main source of food, and are called graminivore s &ndash these include cattle ... been grown as food for domesticated animals for up to 6,000 years. See grass fed beef . They have ... of a grass lawn is a sign of a homeowner s responsibility to the overall appearance of their neighborhood ... to be maintained to certain specifications, sanctioning those who allow the grass to grow too long ... of the freshly cut grass is produced mainly by cis 3 Hexenal . ref http www.chm.bris.ac.uk motm ... Field Day.jpg thumb left Forms of grass are used to cover baseball fields, like this one in Citi Field , home of the Mets . Grass is important in many sports , notably with those played on fields such as American ... sports facilities, including indoor domes and places where maintenance of a grass field would be difficult, grass may be replaced with artificial turf , a synthetic grass like substitute. Sports such as golf , tennis and cricket are particularly dependent on the quality of the grass on which the sport ... matches. In cricket, the pitch is the strip of carefully mowed and rolled grass where the bowler ... grass remaining, will typically favor batsmen at least initially . As the grass dries out and is damaged ... of play. Golf Golf is very dependent on a quality grass surface. Grass on golf courses is kept in three distinct conditions that of the rough , the fairway , and the putting green . Grass on the fairway ... because the grass is generally much longer, which may affect the flight of the ball. Grass ... more details
odoratum Bouteloua dactyloides Hierochloe odorata St. Augustine grass Eucalyptus mitchelliana Buffalo ...Wiktionary buffalo TOCright Buffalo may refer to DABs are not lists of anything that just happens to have the word Buffalo in it. Entry must be known the term buffalo alone. Animals Bovine African buffalo African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo Syncerus caffer American Buffalo, North American colloquial name for American Bison Bison bison Wisent , or Eurasian Buffalo Bison bonasus Water Buffalo Bubalus bubalis , domestic bovid widely used for dairy, meat and draught Wild Water Buffalo Bubalus arnee , the ancestor of the domestic water buffalo Dwarf Buffalo, or anoa , any of several small species of Bubalus Places Settlements and administrative areas Canada Buffalo, Alberta , a ghost town north of Medicine Hat Buffalo No. 409, Saskatchewan , a rural municipality in north central Saskatchewan Calgary Buffalo , a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada Province of Buffalo , one of several proposals for what eventually became Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada South Africa Buffalo City Local Municipality , Eastern Cape Province United States Buffalo, Illinois Buffalo Township, Ogle County, Illinois Buffalo, Indiana Buffalo, Iowa Buffalo, Kansas Buffalo, Kentucky New Buffalo, Michigan Buffalo, Minnesota Buffalo Township, Wright County, Minnesota Buffalo, Missouri Buffalo, Montana Buffalo County, Nebraska Buffalo, New York , largest city named Buffalo University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Buffalo State College Buffalo, North Dakota Buffalo Township, Noble County, Ohio Buffalo, Oklahoma Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania disambiguation , any of four townships in Pennsylvania Buffalo, South Carolina Buffalo, South Dakota Buffalo County, South Dakota Buffalo, Texas Buffalo, West Virginia Buffalo County, Wisconsin Buffalo City, Wisconsin Buffalo, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin Buffalo, Wyoming Other places ... more details
Image Buffalo sentence 1 parse tree.svg right 320px thumb Simplified parse tree br PN noun Proper nouns ... phrase br S sentence linguistics sentence BuffalobuffaloBuffalobuffalobuffalobuffaloBuffalobuffalo. is a grammar grammatically valid sentence linguistics sentence in the English language , used ... , an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York University at Buffalo . ref Rapaport, William J. 22 September 2006. http www.cse.buffalo.edu rapaport buffalobuffalo.html A History of the Sentence BuffalobuffalobuffaloBuffalobuffalo. . Accessed 23 September ... i . William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1994. p. 210 ref Sentence construction File Buffalo ... American Bison , commonly called a buffalo File Buffalo, New York from I 190 North entering downtown.jpg thumb Buffalo, New York The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word buffalo . In order of their first use, these are a. the city of Buffalo, New York , which is used as a noun adjunct in the sentence and is followed by the animal n. the noun American bison buffalo ... article s v. the verb wiktionary buffalo Transitive verb buffalo meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate. Marking each buffalo with its use as shown above gives Buffalo sup a sup buffalo sup n sup Buffalo sup a sup buffalo sup n sup buffalo sup v sup buffalo sup v sup Buffalo sup a sup buffalo sup n sup . Thus, the sentence when parsing parsed reads as a claim that bison who are intimidated or bullied by bison are themselves intimidating or bullying to bison at least in the city of Buffalo, impliedly Buffalo, NY Those Buffalobuffalo whom Buffalobuffalobuffalo, buffaloBuffalobuffalo . Those buffalo es from Buffalo that are intimidated by buffalo es from Buffalo intimidate buffalo es from Buffalo. Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community. THE buffalo FROM Buffalo WHO ARE buffaloED ... more details
Infobox Monarch name Chief John Grass title Sihasapa band chief, Lakota people Lakota image File John ... of birth 1837 date of death May 10, 1918 place of death John Grass , Mato Watakpe or Charging Bear ... through 1890s. ref name grass Merkel, Diane and Dietmar Schulte M hring. http www.american tribes.com Lakota BIO JohnGrass.htm John Grass. American Tribes. 2009 retrieved 3 Aug 2010 ref He fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana . Background Grass was known as Charging Bear in his youth ..., Sicola, and grandfather, Uses Him as a Shield, were important Sihasapa leaders. ref name grass When he was three years old, Grass was baptized at a Jesuit mission by Pierre Jean De Smet , a Jesuit Father. ref name grassGrass married three sisters, including Cecilia Walking Shield in a Lakota .... Some sources say Grass had four children ref Chief John Grass by Alfred Burton Welch and Everett ... son was named Own s Spotted. ref name grass John Grass attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School ... and diplomatic career In the 1850s and 1860s, Grass participated in battles against tribal enemies. He was a member of the White Horse Riders Society. ref name grass From the late 1870s until his death, Grass served as chief justice of the Court of Indian Offenses for the Standing Rock Agency in North Dakota . Together with his friend Hunkpapa Chief Gall , Grass advocated for formal education and agricultural ... in 1889. The US government failed to honor its treaty and statutory obligations, and in 1902 Grass ... grass Death John Grass died on May 10, 1918 at his home near Fort Yates, North Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation . ref name grass Legacy Grass led his warriors at the 1873 battle of Massacre Canyon in Nebraska , in which a Lakota war party attacked a group of Pawnee people Pawnee on a buffalo ... is the face of John Grass, slightly higher and opposite the carving of Ruling His Son s face ... Massacre , Grass advocated peace with the United States, which did not earn him the respect of many ... more details
Infobox Writer for more information see Template Infobox Writer doc name G nter Grass image Grass.JPG birthname G nter Wilhelm Grass birthdate birth date and age df yes 1927 10 16 birthplace Wrzeszcz Danzig ... Prize 1965 awd Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 signature Grass Signature.jpg G nter Wilhelm Grass ... part of his Danzig Trilogy . His works frequently have a left wing political dimension and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . Life Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig on 16 October 1927, to Willy Grass 1899 1979 , a Protestant ethnic German , and Helene Grass n e Knoff, 1898 1954 , a Roman Catholic of Kashubians Kashubian Poles Polish origin ... , http www.litencyc.com php speople.php?rec true&UID 4990 G nter Grass b. 1927 . Retrieved on 16 August 2006. ref Grass was raised a Catholic. His parents had a grocery store with an attached apartment in Danzig Langfuhr now Gda sk Wrzeszcz . He has one sister, who was born in 1930. Grass attended ... index.html Nobel prize winner Grass admits serving in SS Reuters , 11 Aug 2006 ref In 1943 ... 1944, shortly after his seventeenth birthday, into the Waffen SS . The seventeen year old Grass ... of the Berlin Akademie der K nste Berlin Academy of Arts . File G nter Grass pre war house in Gda sk during a small snowstorm.jpg thumb right 150px G nter Grass parental home Works File Gunther Grass by Reginald Gray.jpg thumb left Gunther Grass by Irish artist Reginald Gray. The New York Times. 1965. English speaking readers probably know Grass best as the author of The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel ... Grass has received dozens of international awards and in 1999 achieved the highest literary honor ... of Vergangenheitsbew ltigung , roughly translated as coming to terms with the past. In 2002 Grass ... main characters first appeared in Cat and Mouse , was Grass most successful work in decades. Who ... the G nter Grass Foundation , with the aim of establishing a centralized collection of his numerous ... more details
Grass Lake can refer to a place Canada Grass Lake No. 381, Saskatchewan , rural municipality Grassy Lake, Alberta , a village Grassy Creek No. 78, Saskatchewan , rural municipality United States Grass Lake, Michigan , a village Grass Lake Charter Township, Michigan Grass Lake, a lake in Minnehaha County, South Dakota Grass Lake Township, Minnesota Grass Lake, Lake County, Illinois Grass Lake, Thurston County, Washington geodis de Grass Lake pl Grass Lake ... more details
Grass Owl may refer to any of the following two species African Grass owl , Tyto capensis Australasian Grass owl , Tyto longimembris disambig ... more details
Grass Valley may refer to Places United States Grass Valley, California , a city in Nevada County Roman Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley , a former diocese based in the California city Little Grass Valley, California , a former town in Plumas County Grass Valley, Oakland, California , a neighborhood Grass Valley, Oregon , a city in Sherman County Grass Valley Utah , a valley in Piute County location of Otter Creek Reservoir Australia Grass Valley, Western Australia , a small town in the Avon Valley Other Grass Valley company , a television and film technology company, a subsidiary of Thomson SA Grass Valley speckled dace , an extinct species of fish Grass valley for the general topographical term Disambig de Grass Valley it Grass Valley nl Grass Valley pl Grass Valley vo Grass Valley ... more details
The term Elephant grass may refer to the following grass species The African Pennisetum purpureum , also known as Napier Grass or Uganda Grass The South Asian Saccharum ravennae L. L. Erianthus ravennae L. P. Beauv. , E. elephantinus Hook. f. , also known as Ekra The East Asian Miscanthus sinensis , also known as Chinese Silver Grass, Eulalia Grass, Maiden Grass, Porcupine Grass or Zebra Grass disambig de Elefantengras eo Elefanta herbo nl Olifantsgras ... more details
wiktionarypar grass TOCRight Grass may refer to Plants Grass , a common name for plants with narrow blade shaped leaves Any of a number of plants in the family Poaceae with narrow blade shaped leaves, or other unrelated plants of similar appearance Cannabis drug , a psychoactive drug also called marijuana People G nter Grass born 1927 , German author and playwright Locations Grass Valley, California Grass Mountain Vermont Grass Range, Montana Entertainment Grass 1925 film Grass 1925 film , a documentary about the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran Grass 1999 film Grass 1999 film , a documentary about marijuana Grass album Grass album , a 2005 album by Keller Williams Grass song Grass song , a single by the band Animal Collective Grass TV series Grass TV series , a BBC television series Grass , a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel book Babel Grass novel Grass novel , a novel in The Arbai Trilogy by Sheri Tepper Other uses Grass card game , a cannabis themed card game similar to Mille Bornes GRASS programming language , a programming language used to script 2D vector graphics animations GRASS GIS , an open source geographic information system Supergrass informer , a criminal informer Gras and Grasse , communes in France disambig surname Category German language surnames Category English language surnames Category Jewish surnames de Grass fr Grass nl Grass pl Grass pt Grass ... more details
Grass Holm can refer to the following Grassholm, South Georgia Grassholm , an island in South Georgia Grass Holm, Orkney Grass Holm off Gairsay , Orkney Grassholm Ynys Gwales , Pembrokeshire , Wales geodis ... more details
Grass Island can refer to Tap Mun Grass Island Canada Grass Island South Georgia Grass Island, a small island located in the Midway Island chain. The coordinates are 27 46 28.31 N 175 54 24.38 W disambig Excess long comment to prevent listing on Special Shortpages ............................................................ more details
Grass River or Grasse River may refer to Grass River Michigan , USA Grasse River , New York, USA Grass River Manitoba , a tributary of the Nelson River in Canada Grass River Provincial Park , Manitoba, Canada geodis Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
Angel grass can refer to Phencyclidine , a hallucinogenic drug Angel hair UFO Angel grass , a phenomenon similar to Angel hair, an alleged leftover of UFOs disamb ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Taxobox name Grass bagworm regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera subordo Ditrysia superfamilia Tineoidea familia Psychidae genus Eurukuttarus species E. confederata binomial Eurukuttarus confederata Unreferenced date April 2008 The grass bagworm Eurukuttarus confederata is a species of bagworm that only eats grass . These bagworms make cases less than two cm in length from silk and grass, starting out with a green color, but turning brown as the grass ages. Since they use vertical surfaces to attach when they pupate, grass bagworms are often seen attached to fences, tree trunks, and the sides of buildings in mid to late June. The grass bagworm emerges from its pupa stage earlier in the season than its tree dwelling cousins. Unlike other bagworms, the grass bagworm inflicts no serious damage to its host grass. Category Psychidae Tineoidea stub ... more details
Tocright Sweet grass may mean Plants Hierochloe odorata sweet grass or holy grass , from northern North America and Eurasia Sweet grass or mannagrass, any of the many species in the genus Glyceria Anthoxanthum odoratum , Sweet vernal grass, native to Eurasia Muhlenbergia filipes sweetgrass , native to the southeastern United States colloquially for Cannabis , a psychoactive plant People Sweetgrass First Nation , Saskatchewan, Canada Chief Sweet Grass, a Cree Native American chief Bud Sweetgrass, the hero of Bud Sweetgrass Laughs Last, on amazon.com Places Sweetgrass, Montana , USA Sweet Grass County, Montana , USA Sweet Grass Edmonton , Canada Watercourse Sweet Grass Creek , Montana, USA Cultural Sweetgrass film , a 2009 documentary disambig ... more details
disambig Wild grass may refer to Grass that is uncultivated. Wild Grass , the English language title of Les Herbes folles , a 2009 film directed by Alain Resnais. http www.wildgrass.lk WildGrass , the name of the nature resort www.wildgrass.lk , located in Sri Lanka. ... more details
Broom Grass is a name used for different types or grass around the world. In tropical Asia it refers to Thysanchaena maxima of the family Poaceae a tall, 3m, grass which is indeed used for making brooms. In United States it refers to Andropogon glomeratus of the family Poaceae , a tall grass, growing to about 2m high. disambig It is called Oobu in Kannada. ... more details
about computer software plants growing in the ground Grass Infobox software name GRASS GIS logo Image Grass GIS.svg 150px Official GRASS GIS Logo br br screenshot Image wxgui atm.png 250px GRASS 6.4.0 caption GRASS GIS 6.4.0 developer GRASS Development Team programming language C programming language ... grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS Geographic Resources Analysis Support System is a Free Software free , open ... Vector geometric vector , image processing , and computer graphics graphic data. GRASS is released ... by using the internal GUI with X Window System or by plugging into GRASS via Quantum gis Quantum GIS ... shell this latter method requires the setting of several environment variables . The recent GRASS 6 ... volumes. GRASS supports an extensive range of raster and vector formats through the binding to GDAL ... with other GIS. It also supports Linear Reference System . The GRASS Development Team is a multi national group consisting of developers at numerous locations. GRASS is one of the eight initial Software Projects of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation . Architecture GRASS supports raster ... vector illustration program does. GRASS is designed as an environment in which tools that perform specific GIS computations are executed. Unlike typical application software , upon starting GRASS ... of GRASS commands known as modules . The environment has a state that includes such parameters as the geographic region covered and the map projection in use. All GRASS modules read this state and additionally ... when executed. The majority of GRASS modules and capabilities can be operated via a graphical user interface provided by a GRASS module , as an alternative to manipulating geographic data in shell. There are over 300 core GRASS modules included in the GRASS distribution, and over 100 add on modules created by users and offered on the GRASS web site. The GRASS libraries and core modules are written ... programming language Python , UNIX shell, Tcl , or other scripting languages. The GRASS modules ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Static grass is used in model railroading and miniature wargaming to create realistic looking grass textures. It consists of small threadlike particles charged with static electricity , making it stand up when glued to a surface. Several companies produce static grass products, including Woodland Scenics and Noch. Static grass is usually used by applying a layer of glue on the surface, then pouring it on and tipping off the excess. It can also be applied with a shaker, also known as a puffer. External links http www.ztrains.com pages tech grassinator grassinator.html Build you own static grass applicator from Ztrains.com http jlbfigs.com painting tips.html Instructions for using static grass http slappingpaint.net easystaticgrass.html Easy Static Grass application by Craig Stocks Category Scale modeling Wargame stub ... more details
Grass mantis is a common name mostly given to various species of praying mantis that mimicry mimic grass or other slender plant vegetation . Species to which this name has been applied include but are not limited to Glabromantis mexicana Mexican grass mantis ref http bugsincyberspace.com mantis.html Praying Mantises, AKA Mantids Order Dictyoptera ref Odontomantis planiceps grass mantis ref http www.usamantis.com odonto log.html USA Mantis ref ref http www.prayingmantid.co.uk portfolio23242.html Odontomantis planiceps grass mantis ref Oxyothespis dumonti African grass mantis Thesprotia graminis American grass mantis See also Dead leaf mantis Flower mantis Stick mantis List of mantis genera and species References reflist Mantodea stub category Mantodea ... more details
Grass frogs is a catch all term for a wide range of fairly unrelated frog s. The species referred to as grass frogs are typically medium sized Neobatrachia that live in or near small rivers, lakes or ponds in grassland habitat, with a greenish to brownish back that often carries yellowish or blackish stripes or dots for good crypsis camouflage . Though among their relatives there are frogs that climb well, grass frogs are hardly ever found to climb trees. Grass frogs are by no means a group of closest relatives, though many look remarkably similar in overall Morphology biology habitus courtesy to millions of years of convergent evolution . In Australia , grass frogs are usually members of the tree frog family biology family Hylidae , in particular of the genus Litoria . In most of the rest of the world, especially in North America and Europe , grass frogs are usually members of the true frog family Ranidae , in particular of the genus Rana genus Rana . The widespread Africa n true frog species Ptychadena mascareniensis is the archetypal grass frog of its home continent. In Asia, it is Rana chensinensis . The Common Frog Rana temporaria is the typical grass frog of much of Europe, while the leopard frog s of the Rana pipiens complex also known as meadow frogs are what most North Americans know as grass frogs . However, the Little Grass Frog Pseudacris ocularis of the southeastern USA belongs to the tree frogs. The Spotted Grass Frog , Limnodynastes tasmaniensis belongs to the Australian ground frog family Myobatrachidae . gallery Image Litoria raniformis.jpg Growling Grass Frog br Litoria raniformis br Hylidae br br Australia Image Rana pipiens.jpg Northern Leopard Frog br Rana pipiens br Ranidae br br North America Image Grenouille Ptychadena mascareniensis.JPG Mascarene Grass Frog br Ptychadena mascareniensis br Ranidae br br Africa Image P ocularis USGS.jpg Little Grass Frog br Pseudacris ocularis br Hylidae br br North America gallery See also Green frog disambiguation ... more details
orphan date March 2010 In Irish mythology , hungry grass lang ga f ar gortach also known as fairy grass is a patch of cursed grass . Anyone walking on the hungry grass was doomed to perpetual and insatiable hunger . Harvey suggests that the hungry grass is cursed by the proximity of an absolution unshriven Dead body corpse the fear gorta . ref name Harvey Harvey, Steenie. http www.trueteacher.com cm apurl rc1 EAIM 0 A21200647&dyn 8 xrn 1 0 A21200647.htm Twilight places Ireland s enduring fairy lore . World and I , March 1998, v13 n3. ref William Carleton s stories suggest that faerie s plant the hungry grass. ref William Carleton Carleton, William . http www.gutenberg.org files 16019 16019.txt Phelim O toole s Courtship and Other Stories ref According to Harvey this myth may relate to beliefs formed in the Irish Potato Famine 1845 1849 Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. ref name Harvey In Margaret McDougall s letters the phrase hungry grass is by analogy to the myth used to describe hunger pain s. ref McDougall, Margaret. http www.gutenberg.org etext 6599 The Letters of Norah on Her Tour Through Ireland ref See also Hungry ghost References references DEFAULTSORT Hungry Grass Category Irish mythology ... more details
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