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daba grass

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables
daba -grass
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Miscanthus capensis, a long African grass used as thatch.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Xhosa idobo (“long, coarse grass”).

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

dobbo grass (alternative)

Questions

What does daba grass mean?
Miscanthus capensis, a long African grass used as thatch.
Where does daba grass come from?
From Xhosa idobo (“long, coarse grass”).

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