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Dal′lis grass′
(dal′is),USA pronunciation
- Plant Biologya pasture grass, Paspalum dilatatum, native to South America and naturalized in the southern U.S.
- after A. T. Dallis (or Dallas), a farmer who cultivated the grass successfully near La Grange, Georgia, in the late 19th century 1905–10