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Andropogon

noun
1.
Tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions.  Synonym: genus Andropogon.



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Andropogon furcatus
Andropogon gerardii
Andropogon scoparius
Andropogon virginicus


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... leaves of the andromeda in January, or a suggestion of Teneriffe in a stone-heap, does not indicate genius. To see the great in the little, or the whole of Nature in any of her parts, is the poet's gift, but to ask, after seeing the andropogon grass, "Are there no purple reflections from the culms of thought in my mind?"—a remark which Channing quotes as very significant—is not to be poetical. Thoreau is full of these impossible and fantastic comparisons, ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs
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Words linked to "Andropogon" :   family Poaceae, Andropogon virginicus, Andropogon gerardii, broom grass, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, grass family, monocot genus, Poaceae, Andropogon furcatus, genus Andropogon, Andropogon scoparius, liliopsid genus, family Gramineae, Gramineae


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