pampas : Idioms & Phrases


Pampas cat

  • (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat.
Webster 1913

Pampas deer

  • (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, ∨ Blastocerus, campestris).
Webster 1913

Pampas grass

  • noun tall perennial grass of pampas of South America having silvery plumes and growing in large dense clumps
    Cortaderia selloana.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.
Webster 1913