Meanings of esparto in English

The exports are minerals, esparto, oil, grain, grapes and farm produce generally.

Besides lead, the exports include grapes, sugar and esparto.

But the esparto has a rival so far as its use in making paper is concerned.

The donkey basket is made of esparto grass.

When the plant turns brown and has become dry to the root, the esparto picker gets busy.

Between the bite of a rattler and that of an esparto viper there is little to choose.

But usually the shellfish are spread out on mats made from the esparto grass that covers the beaches.

Almost all the animal life of the Sahara is deadly, and the esparto grass picker is constantly facing danger.

The flora of the high plateaus consists chiefly of grasses, notably various kinds of alfa or esparto, and aromatic herbs.

Bread-stuffs and Numidian wines were bartered for the flocks of the Aures, leather, dates, and the esparto basket-work of the regions of Sahara.

It is the chief outlet for the Spanish trade in esparto grass, and for the iron ore and other mineral products of the neighbourhood.

There were traces of various crafts in the deposit of mud upon the steps-brass-filings ,brokenbuttons, scraps of gauze, and esparto grass lay scattered about.

About 1400 ships, of nearly 1,000,000 tons, enter the port every year, bringing fuel and timber, and taking cargoes of iron, lead, esparto and fruit.

Esparto grass, rice, olives, the sugar-cane, and tropical fruits and vegetables are largely produced.

Esparto, a Spanish grass grown in South Africa, has entered largely into the making of print-paper in England.

Esparto grass sandals protect his feet.