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Webster 1913 Edition
Pampas
Pam′pas
,Noun.
pl.
[Sp., fr. Peruv.
pampa
a field, plain.] 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.
Pampas cat
(Zool.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (
– Cervus campestris
syn. Blastocerus campestris
). Pampas grass
(Bot.)
, a very tall ornamental grass (
Gynerium argenteum
) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.