kans
noun
an Indian grass of the genus Saccharum, used in some areas for fodder, thatching, etc., and being in other areas a troublesome weed.
kans
1 American
[kahns]
/ kɑns /
noun
Kans.
2
American
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of kans
1870–75; < Hindi kās < Sanskrit kāśa; compare Pali, Prakrit kāsa
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By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the tractors successfully cleared a 7,000-acre tract of kans, the Indian government swung a $10 million loan from the World Bank, bought 240 more U.S. tractors, equipped them with specially designed root-cutting plows.
From Time Magazine Archive
A quarter of a century ago, an Indian government agronomist named Daulat R. Sethi set out to lick kans, found a way by cutting its roots a foot or so beneath the surface.
From Time Magazine Archive
For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail.
From Time Magazine Archive
The goose is, in Sanskrit hansa, in Latin anser, in Old German kans, in Greek χήν.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman
Lanexa, Kans., in the southwestern suburbs of Kansas City, tallied 11 inches of snow, with 10 inches in places like Bonner Springs, Williamstown, Eudora and Lawrence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
Tracy Claeys spent his year of unemployment back in his hometown of Clay Center, Kans., accompanying his mother to yard sales, fishing in the river and spending quality time with his family.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
After searching for Thornton in Southern California and Topeka, Kans., detectives eventually arrested him April 18, 2012, at his home in the Northern California city of Auburn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2015
In the most important speech of that cycle, Obama’s remarks on the economy in Osawatomie, Kans., on Dec. 6, 2011, Obama found the refrain that would carry him to re-election.
From Time ● Feb. 12, 2013
J. E. Caldwell, Sego, Kans., a $3 piccolo, a set of boxwood chessmen, and a box of water-color paints, for the best offer of Golden Days.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by Elverson, James
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