Pampas /(?)/
Pam·pas
Pampas
n. pl.
- Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Phrases & Compounds
- Pampas cat
- 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.
- Pampas deer
- a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus campestris syn. Blastocerus campestris).
- Pampas grass
- a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.