Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spreading seaside cyperaceous plant, Scirpus spiralis, native to New Zealand. It has three-angled culms, from 1 to 3 feet high, and long, concave, keeled leaves, which are used for plaiting into belts.
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The Horowhenua floodplains, northwest of Wellington, still have dunes dominated by native sand-binders spinifex (Spinifex sericeus) and pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis) as well as many estuaries and ephemeral inland wetlands.
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Kown as pikao in the deep south, pingao beat three species on the verge of extinction -
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Kown as pikao in the deep south, pingao beat three species on the verge of extinction -
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Network committee member John Sawyer says thousands of entries were recieved in the online poll, in which pingao, the golden sand sedge, attracted more votes than 100 other species.
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Network committee member John Sawyer says thousands of entries were recieved in the online poll, in which pingao, the golden sand sedge, attracted more votes than 100 other species.
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