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pyp-grass|ˈpaɪpˌgrɑːs, -æ-|
[app. f. Du. pijp, formerly pyp pipe + grass.]
A tall-growing South African species of grass, Ehrharta gigantea.
1854P. L. Simmonds in Pharmac. Jrnl. XIII. 421 Some⁓thing must be sown with the berry [of the Myrica] to screen its shoot... Pyp grass seed should..be prepared for the purpose. 1880S. Africa (Silver & Co.), Of indigenous grasses which may be usefully employed to arrest drifting sands none are better than the Pyp grass. |