One or other of various species of grass, esp.: (a) the striped or ribbon-grass; (b) the Australasian grasses Danthonia pallida, and Poa cæspitosa…
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses (15) silver grass1600 One or other of various species of grass, esp.: (a) the striped or ribbon-grass; (b) the Australasian grasses Danthonia pallida, and Poa cæspitosa… buffalo grass1784 (a) a kind of grass (Buchloë dactyloides) found in the prairies; also used generally (see quot. 1950); (b) any of various African grasses used for… cane grass1827 (a) U.S. the plant Arundinaria macrosperma forming the cane-brakes of the southern United States; (b) Australian Glyceria ramigera. porcupine grass1842 (a) Australian any of several spinifex grasses, esp. Triodia pungens and T. irritans; (b) U.S. any of several grasses with distinctive upright… tussock-grass1842 One or other of several grasses of the Southern Hemisphere; esp. (a) Poa flabellata (formerly Dactylis cæspitosa), a tall-growing valuable grass of… spinifex1846 One or other of a number of coarse grasses (now classed in the genus Triodia or Plectrachne) which grow in dense masses on the sand-hills of the… spear-grass1847 Australian. One or other of various grasses belonging to different genera (see quots.). rice grass1848 Australian and New Zealand. Any of various grasses; esp. (a) the marsh grass Leersia hexandra; (b) (chiefly with distinguishing word) any of several… sugar-grass1862 (a) = sorghum, n. 1b; (b) the Australian grass Pollinia fulva or Erianthus fulvus. blue star grass1876 (a) the carnation sedge, Carex panicea, of Eurasia (obsolete. rare); (b) the windmill grass, Chloris ventricosa, of eastern Australia (now rare)… wiregrass1883 Any of numerous grasses or grass-like plants having wiry stems; esp. (North American) (a) the blue grass Poa compressa (now rare); (b) any of various… windmill-grass1889 an Australian grass, Chloris truncata, with long spreading flower-spikes. danthonia1918 A member of a large genus of tufted perennial pasture grasses so named, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand. Wimmera rye-grass1920 a grass belonging to a drought-resistant variety of Lolium rigidum first identified in the Wimmera area about 1900. niggerhead1923 Australian. Any of several grasses of the genus Enneapogon, esp. E. nigricans, having dark seed heads. |
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