kans

¹ American  

[kahns] / kɑns /

noun

1. an Indian grass of the genus Saccharum, used in some areas for fodder, thatching, etc., and being in other areas a troublesome weed.

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Kans. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Kansas.

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Etymology

Origin of kans

1870–75; < Hindi kās < Sanskrit kāśa; compare Pali, Prakrit kāsa

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans.

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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.

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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