Bermuda grass

See also: bermudagrass

English

Alternative forms

• bermudagrass

Etymology

Not native to Bermuda, but abundant and an invasive species there.

Noun

Bermuda grass (usually uncountable, plural Bermuda grasses)

1. A perennial grass, Cynodon dactylon, native to Africa and Asia, used in warm areas of the world for pasture, lawn and making hay.

   Synonyms: Bahama grass, devil grass, dogtooth grass, doob grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass

Translations

a perennial grass, Cynodon dactylon, native to Africa and Asia, used in warm areas of the world for pasture, lawn and making hay

• Arabic: ثَيِّل m (ṯayyil), or ثِيل m (ṯīl)
• Aramaic:

  Christian Palestinian Aramaic: ܝܒܠܐ m (yaḇlā)

  Classical Syriac: ܝܒܠܐ m (yaḇlā)

  Jewish Aramaic: יַבְלָא m (yaḇlā)

• Armenian: արվանտակ (hy) (arvantak), շնատամ (hy) (šnatam), սիլ (hy) (sil)
• Burmese: နေစာ (my) (neca), မြေစာ (my) (mreca)
• Catalan: gram (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狗牙根 (zh) (gǒu yágēn)

• Finnish: varvasheinä (fi)
• French: Chiendent pied-de-poule m
• Georgian: გლერტა (glerṭa)
• German: Hundszahngras n
• Greek: αγριάδα (el) f (agriáda)
• Gujarati: ધરો (dharo), ધ્રો (dhro), ધ્રોખડ (dhrokhaḍ)
• Hebrew: יַבְּלׅית f (yabbəlīṯ)
• Hindi: दूब घास (dūb ghās)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ಗರಿಕೆಹುಲ್ಲು (garikehullu)
• Kazakh: бессаусақ қарашағыр (bessausaq qaraşağyr)
• Kyrgyz: ажырык (ky) (ajırık)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: കറുക (ml) (kaṟuka)
• Punic: 𐤉𐤁𐤋 m (ybl)
• Russian: свиноро́й (ru) m (svinorój)
• Serbo-Croatian: zùbača (sh) f, tròskot (sh) m
• Swedish: hundtandsgräs (sv) n, bermudagräs n
• Tagalog: balbalut, warit
• Tamil: அறுகு (ta) (aṟuku)
• Telugu: గరిక (te) (garika)
• Vietnamese: cỏ gà
• Welsh: glaswellt Bermwda m pl

Further reading

• Cynodon dactylon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia