cane grass

noun

1. any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps

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At first, González-Aller tried to redo the place on his own, picking up furniture from the Charf, a low-lying neighborhood where local craftsmen weave cane grass into lampshades, chairs and sideboards.

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The study looked at grasses like cane grass, which is native to Myanmar but is damaging ecosystems in Florida, and buffelgrass, which is helping to ignite fires in the Southwest and has origins outside of North America.

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These marshes are overspread with a luxuriant growth of tall reedy cane grass.

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Crude had penetrated several feet deep into the wetlands, turning the cane grass closest to the water as brown as a decayed tooth and leaving the plants dead or dying.

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The air became black as night and was filled with cane, grass, and branches of trees.

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