genus Cortaderia

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1.genus Cortaderia - tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grassCortaderialiliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedfamily Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar caneCortaderia selloana, pampas grass - tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps