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

The ground afterwards rose in gentle undulations, and was covered with kangaroo grass;** the soil changing also from clay to a red sandy loam.

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 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

The character of the country is inferior, as the grass which covers the plains is principally aristidia and andropogon; anthisteria or kangaroo grass only in small patches.

From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus Charles