Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grass, Imperata arundinacea, widely spread in the tropics, growing on land which has gone out of cultivation. Also called
alang and, in the Philippines, cogon.
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Examples
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Occurring along the northern promontory of Ujung Kulon near Tanjung alang-alang is a seasonally inundated freshwater swamp forest.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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With repeated burning, alang-alang grass (Imperata cylindrica) may become dominant.
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On we pressed, sometimes through a sparse wood of the white-barked cajeput-tree, by a pleasant grass-grown road, sometimes through stretches of alang-alang grass, terribly trying to the men, for the feet must be lifted as if wading through waves, and it reflects cruelly the fierce heat of the sun, while the sharp blades cut their legs.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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One day we turned off from the high road, and took a path apparently but little used, as it was a complete carpet of short green turf, which led us across a gently undulating champaign country; passing now through patches of beautiful forest, now through open rice-fields or small plains of alang-alang.
Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The facade and some interior walls are woven from bamboo strips, and the roof is made of dried alang-alang grass.
NYT > Global Home By GISELA WILLIAMS 2011
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The only signs of human habitation on the island's less than 40 acres are some bohemian-chic beach villas with alang-alang grass roofs,
NYT > Travel 2010
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He is planting Acacia mangium and other fast-growing trees to produce the shade that eventually kills the alang-alang.
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As an additional defense against fire, each family tending a plot is required to clear the ground around it of alang-alang, undergrowth or anything else flammable.
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He is planting Acacia mangium and other fast-growing trees to produce the shade that eventually kills the alang-alang.
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The first challenge was killing the alang-alang, a cyanide-secreting grass that had created a desolation Smits calls 'a green shroud. '
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