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‖ doob|duːb|
Also doub, erron. dhoop.
[Hindī dūb, = Skr. dūrvā.]
Native name for the dog's-tooth grass (Cynodon Dactylon), used as a fodder-grass in India.
1810T. Williamson E. India Vade M. I. 259 (Y.) The doob..in the low countries about Dacca..this grass abounds; attaining to a prodigious luxuriance! 1835A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) II. 10 A kind of creeping grass called ‘doob’. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 405 A thickly-matted sod of fiorin, or doob grass. |