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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hard bunch-grass, Stipa Ichu, of the cold table-lands of Peru and Bolivia, the principal food of the llama and other ruminants of the genus Auchenia: used for covering Indian houses, and also eaten by mules, asses, horses, sheep, and cattle.
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This is followed by what are called the páramos, cold and stormy wastes, treeless and exposed to daily snows, which reach an altitude of 15,000 feet above sea level, and where the tough puna-grass flourishes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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