Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of panicgrass, Panicum virgatum, found from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains in the United States. It is a tall species with a large panicle, of some use among wild grasses.
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Examples
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Sugar ethanol is better, and switch-grass ethanol would probably be better yet.
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Holt-Gimenez calls the argument a "bait and switch-grass shell game" to make the case for first generation production now ongoing.
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Holt-Gimenez calls the argument a "bait and switch-grass shell game" to make the case for first generation production now ongoing.
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Well, we now believe, and there are people in the private sector believe that you can actually harvest the switch-grass and use it as a biomass -- turn it into energy.
Press Briefing On The Development Of Alternative Fuels ITY National Archives 1999
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I think he was talking about planting switch-grass for bio fuel.
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Ethanol can also be made from other grains such as sorghum as well as from "biomass" sources such as corn cobs, cornstalks, algae, wheat straw, rice straw, switch-grass, vegetable and forestry waste and other organic matter.
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