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Poa  n.  (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).





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... Barth[524] states that the slaves over a large part of the central region regularly collect the seeds of a wild grass, the Pennisetum distichum; in another district he saw women collecting the seeds of a Poa by swinging a sort of basket through the rich meadow-land. Near Tete Livingstone observed the natives collecting the seeds {309} of a wild grass; and farther south, as Andersson informs me, the natives largely use the seeds of a grass of about the size of canary-seed, ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Poa" :   family Poaceae, monocot genus, Gramineae, bluegrass, Kentucy blue grass, Poa pratensis, Agrostis alba, Kentucky blue, family Gramineae, grass family, genus Poa, blue grass, Graminaceae, Kentucky bluegrass, Poa nemoralis, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, liliopsid genus


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