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Erianthus

noun

Genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs. Synonym: genus Erianthus.

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... about their fate, because they had broken the treaty. Some writers say that he actually consulted the allies about the advisability of selling the whole population for slaves, in which debate the Theban Erianthus proposed to destroy the city and make the site of it a sheep walk. Afterwards, however, when the generals were drinking together a Phokian sang the first song in the Elektra of Euripides, which ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long

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Words linked to "Erianthus" : Graminaceae, Ravenna grass, monocot genus, liliopsid genus, Gramineae, family Gramineae, Erianthus ravennae, Poaceae, plume grass, family Graminaceae, wool grass, family Poaceae, grass family