kangaroo grass

British  

noun

1. a tall widespread Australian grass, Themeda australis, which is highly palatable to cattle and is used for fodder

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Example Sentences

On Guadalcanal they found the thick, heavy soil covered with high, knife-edged kangaroo grass, had to use bulldozers borrowed from the Seabees before they could even begin to plow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lofty stringybark trees and other timber grew there on a white sandy soil; but we found among the bushes abundance of the anthisteria or kangaroo grass.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas

There were four kinds but the cattle appeared to relish most a strong species of anthisteria, or kangaroo grass.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

The grass is extremely luxuriant, like all the unstocked portions of rich ground in this country, the long kangaroo grass rising to the saddle skirts.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest

In the first part of the way in many places it was well covered with kangaroo grass, but in the last part of the journey it was too scrubby to be well grassed.

From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by Landsborough, William