silvergrass

English

Alternative forms
  • silver grass

Noun

silvergrass (plural silvergrasses)

  1. A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes
  2. (Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides.
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:
      At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.
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