sacatezacaten.
/səˈkɑːteɪ//zəˈkɑːtɛ/ Any of several grasses grown in Mexico, the southern U.S.A., and the Philippines, and used for hay or fresh forage; fodder made from such a grass. Cf. sacaton n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder
bullimong1313
podder1468
tare1482
greens1607
lucerne1652
esperate1659
esparcet1669
tare-thistle1753
buckwheat1776
mangel-wurzel1787
mangold1848
sacate1848
sacaton1865
mangel-wurzel potato1875
mutter1875
ramon1885
cattle-bush1889
manna1897
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture
windlestrawc1000
red grass1582
spring grass1643
sweet-grass1709
herd-grass1747
Guinea grass1756
vernal grass1762
vernal1771
Paspalum1772
buffalo grass1784
Rhode Island bent1790
red-top1792
finetop1824
kangaroo-grass1827
gamagrass1831
sweet vernal grass1839
yellow-top1839
grama1844
sesame grass1845
sacate1848
Para grass1850
Hungarian1859
alfilaria1860
sacaton1865
Mitchell grass1867
teosinte1877
Landsborough grass1883
turnip-grass1889
brown top1891
ichu1891
manna1897
Rhodes grass1903
Sudan1911
Kikuyu grass1913
never-fail1923
buffel grass1955
1848 J. W. Abert Rep. Exam. New Mexico 1846–7 29 As there were no pasture grounds near the village, I was forced to buy ‘zacate’ for my mules.
1891 G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. ii. (facing plate XX) [Sporobolus wrightii is] a tall coarse grass, growing in dense tufts, commonly called Saccaton or Zacate.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 659/1 The jungle almost obliterated the track. He cut it down with his machete.., and, pushing his tired beast through sacate and bamboo, emerged..on a gravelly bank.
1977 A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 44 Axonopus affinis Chase... Carpet grass;..Zacate amargo.
1977 A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 45 Axonopus compressus (Swartz) Beauv. Carpet grass;..Zacate amargo.
1977 A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 92 Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers... Bermuda grass;..Zacate Bermuda.
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