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单词 buttongrass
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buttongrass
buttongrass n. chiefly Australian any of several grasses or grass-like plants which have globular flower heads; spec. Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (family Cyperaceae), a perennial, tussock-forming sedge which is native to Australia and Tasmania.
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1814 Catal. Trees, Shrubs, & Herbaceous Plants (Bartram's Bot. Garden) (new ed.) 36 Eriocaulon decangulare. Button grass.
1860 Hobart Town (Austral.) Daily Mercury 13 Apr. The wiry and useless ‘gymnoschenus,’ (the button grass of our shepherds,) is still plentiful in this valley.
1933 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 57 126 The well-known ‘button-grass’ (Dactyloctenium aegyptium) characteristic of the high glacial plains of the western part of the Island.
1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 6 Button-grass plains where no feed grows that will sustain a horse.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 1 Feb. (Travel section) 1 The landscape consists of fields of billowing buttongrass and panoramic views of wild mountain scenery.
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