AstroTurf
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Etymology[edit]
astro- + turf, from its namesake trademark, in turn a reference to the Astrodome stadium in Houston, the first major sports venue to install artificial turf in 1966. The venue was named by its developer Roy Hofheinz, presumably a reference to the emerging identity of Houston as Space City.
Originally marketed as ChemGrass.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæstɹoʊˌtɝf/
Noun[edit]
AstroTurf (uncountable)
- A synthetic material used in sports grounds as a durable substitute for natural grass.
- Synonym: artificial turf
- 2011, Rick Horrow, Karla Swatek, Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider's Guide to the Business of Sport[1], Human Kinetics, →ISBN:
- And then there's AstroTurf. Invented in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and patented by Monsanto in 1965, AstroTurf is the world's first synthetic turf used as a sports playing surface, coming to fame—and its name—when it was put into the Houston Astrodome in 1966.
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Translations[edit]
synthetic material — see artificial turf