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Definition of elephant grass
1 : an Old World cattail (Typha elephantina) used especially in making baskets
2 : napier grass
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Recent Examples on the Web Other favorites of the 11 western lowland gorillas living at Walt Disney World include elephant grass grown in the park plus cherry tomatoes and fresh eggplant imported from The Land pavilion at Epcot.
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Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, "World Gorilla Day: Disney’s influence runs from Animal Kingdom to Congo and beyond," 24 Sep. 2019 Bressand spent three months with artisans in Ghana learning how to create sculptural baskets using a naturally golden straw from the savannah called elephant grass.
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Brooke Bobb, Vogue, "Inès Bressand Is Crafting the Basket Bags You’ll Be Coveting This Spring," 23 Jan. 2019 The promises of JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great Society seemed irretrievably lost in the humid jungles and sharp elephant grass of Southeast Asia.
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Jon Meacham, Time, "50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living In Its Shadow," 18 Jan. 2018 How easily could a farmer be persuaded to stop growing food and start cultivating elephant grass or willow trees?
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, "After the pledge: Scientists scramble to make politicians' climate goals a reality," 12 Dec. 2017
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The first known use of elephant grass was in 1832
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