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sacaton, zacaton
(ˈsækətəʊn, ˈzæ-, ‖ sakaˈton)
Also sacatone, † saccato, † saccaton(e), and with capital initial.
[ad. Mexican Sp. zacatón, augmentative of zacate (see prec).]
Any of several coarse, tough grasses grown in Mexico and the southern U.S.A. and used for hay, esp. species of Sporobolus and Epicampes; alkali sacaton, a tussock grass, Sporobolus airoides, able to survive drought and alkaline soils. Cf. prec.
1865Harper's Mag. Jan. 147/1 The grass consists of three principal varieties; the sacatone, a coarse, thick, and strong variety, growing in bunches; the mesquit..and the grama. 1886Outing Dec. 223/2 We came upon a caved-in well, a wide hollow with a black bottom, covered with high rank grass, the Mexican zacaton. 1891G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. i. (facing plate XXV), It [sc. Muhlenbergia distichophylla] is one of the grasses called saccato. Ibid. (facing plate XXVII), This [sc. Epicampes macroura] is another of the grasses called saccato, or saccatone. 1929J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 201 Two species of the S.W. States are important forage grasses in the arid or semi-arid regions of Nebraska, Arizona, and Texas—S[porobolus] wrightii Munro, ‘Saccaton’, and S. airoides Torr., ‘Alkali Saccaton’ or ‘Alkali Drop-seed’. 1936J. A. McKenna Black Range Tales 177 The Indians..crept from rock to rock; they crawled like snakes from one bunch of sacatone to another. 1942Castetter & Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 22 Along the edges and in the openings of the forests of these two drainages, sacaton grass (Sporobolus Wrightii) thrives. 1968F. W. Gould Grass Systematics v. 265 Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr., alkali sacaton, is a characteristic bunchgrass of alkaline areas in the western states. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus ix. 194 The zacaton grass..is tall—as much as three feet high—a very pale golden-yellow in colour, and it grows in huge tussocks all over the soft, black, volcanic soil. 1977A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 181 Panicum maximum Jacq. Guinea grass;..Zacaton (Mexico). |