vetiver

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After about the fifth year, our trees close canopy and the vetiver is affected by shade.

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  1. noun A grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) of tropical India, cultivated for its aromatic roots that yield an oil used in perfumery.
  2. noun The roots of this plant.

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  • Root trees like vetiver, costus, valerian and angelica, shrubs like keruda, lotes, kadam, parijat and night queen. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Pacifica Tibetan Mountain Temple: Add clove to the listed notes - vetiver root, patchouli, ginger and orange rinds - found on the back of the tin for this solid perfume. —  Now Smell This
  • Most varieties of vetiver are naturally sterile hybrids and do not set seed, nor does vetiver produce stolons, so there is no danger of the grass spreading from where it is planted. —  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
  • The other important function of vetiver is that it forms a windbreak to slow the force of winds sweeping up the bare hillside, so that native grass and herb seeds are not blown away and have a rapid growth of native ground covers that provides the second line of defence against erosion. —  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
  • After about the fifth year, our trees close canopy and the vetiver is affected by shade. —  Permaculture Research Institute of Australia
 

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  1. French vétiver, from Tamil veṭṭivēr : veṭṭi, worthless + vēru, useless.

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  1. = French vétiver, vétyver (New Latin vetiveria), from East Indian vitivayr (Littré), a name given to the roots of the plant.
 

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/ˈvɛtɪvər/
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