Espartos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 535 anagrams from letters in espartos (aeoprsst).
1585-95; Spanish Latin spartum Greek spárton rope made of spártos kind of rush
esparto grass, also called alfa, grows in Spain and the northern part of Africa.
A fibre called alfa, a variety of esparto, which grows wild on the high plateaux, is exported in large quantities.
Its chief exports are esparto grass, sponges, and dye-stuffs.
Nowadays a much wider outlet has been found for esparto grass, and it is grown artificially.
Alfa, al′fa, n. an African name for esparto grass—also spelt Halfa.
The district is famous for its melons, and also produces wine, olives, wheat and esparto grass.
There is some trade in sawn timber and cloth; esparto fabrics, alcohol and oil are manufactured.
esparto is a kind of grass now much used in the manufacture of paper.
The decline of the esparto grass industry led to no little unrest among some of the native tribes of northern Africa.
(C) esparto is frequently bleached by the “steeping” process.