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carrizo

n. tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts [syn: ditch reed, common reed, Phragmites communis]

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Carrizo

Carrizo may refer to:

Carrizo (plant)

Carrizo is the Spanish vernacular name of the following plants found in a carrizal (reed field):

  • Ammophila arenaria
  • Arundo donax
  • Elytrigia repens
  • Phragmites australis

Usage examples of "carrizo".

The sandbar below them was thickly grown with willow and carrizo cane and the bluffs on the far side were stained and cavepocked and traversed by a constant myriad of swallows.

Behind it, the dim outline of the Carrizo Mountains formed the last margin of the planet.

He moved now in the foothills of the Carrizo Mountains in Dinetah, the land of the Navajos, over twenty-five thousand square miles, much of it still grazing land, over a million and a half acres still wildland, bounded by the four sacred mountains - Debentsa in the north, Mount Taylor in the south, San Francisco Peaks in the west and Blanco Peak in the east, each with its stories and sacred meanings.

Here the Carrizo Mountains ended and became the Lukachukai stem of the Chuska range.

Thence they took the trail toward the Cibicu again, reaching the Carrizo in the evening, where they camped for the night and performed another dance.