Alfa grass: Definition and part of speech

Alfa grass

  1. n. A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Alexandrine: Definition and part of speech

Alexandrine

  1. n. A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
  2. a. Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.