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

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

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

The hill which I named Mount Eckersley was covered, as well as the ridge to which it belonged, with a luxuriant crop of anthisterium, or kangaroo grass.

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

Amongst the ranges we found kangaroo grass as high as our shoulders, and on the plains the spear grass up to our knees.

From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John