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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kangaroo grass

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

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

Themeda Forskalii, which occurs from the Mediterranean region to South Africa and Tasmania, is the kangaroo grass of Australia, where, as in South Africa, it often covers wide tracts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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