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spinifex /ˈspɪnɪfɛks /nounA grass with coarse spiny leaves and spiny flower heads which break off and are blown about like tumbleweed, occurring from East Asia to Australia.- Genus Spinifex, family Gramineae.
It also promotes an appreciation of the spinifex and desert oak landscape that surrounds Uluru....- Alex had stood on the rocks above him, and could see the blood trickling out from beneath the spinifex tussocks.
- Here he had pulled a spinifex tussock to the cave entrance, and sung a powerful magic song.
Origin Early 19th century: modern Latin, from Latin spina 'thorn' + -fex from facere 'make'. |