kangaroo grass

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Noun

kangaroo grass (usually uncountable, plural kangaroo grasses)

  1. (Australia) Any of various tussocky grasses of the genus Themeda, especially Themeda triandra. [from 19th c.]
    • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 51:
      They walked through plains of silver tussock and kangaroo grass and pines 200 feet high, and discovered a pair of lakes that Laycock named “Kemp's Lakes” (now Lakes Sorell and Crescent).
    • 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 23:
      The kangaroo grass in the Colac region of Western Victoria was so high it concealed the flocks of the first settler, G.T. Lloyd.
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