brachiaria

English

Noun

brachiaria (uncountable)

  1. A grass of the genus Brachiaria.
    • 2011, Advances in Agronomy, volume 91, page 88:
      The brachiaria is made to germinate and emerge later than the maize, either by delaying its planting or by planting it deeper.
    • 2017 July 1, “Lessons galore in fifth farmers’ clinic”, in Daily Nation‎:
      The expert said that what a dairy cow needs is Kikuyu grass which has about 22 per cent nutritional value, brachiaria, rhodes or star grass (13 percent), napier grass in that order of nutritional value.

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