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. [1913 Webster]

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. -- Pampas deer (Zoöl.), 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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pampas, n.pl. large treeless plains in S. America.

Idiom

pampas-grass a tall grass, Cortaderia selloana, from S. America, with silky flowering plumes.

Etymology

Sp. f. Quechua pampa plain

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THESAURUS

pampas

alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass, grass veld, grassland, grazing, haugh, haughland, heath, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, range, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, swale, table, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

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ROGET THESAURUS

pampas

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.

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