porcupine grass
Britishnoun
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We left this pretty glen with its purling stream and reedy bed, and entered very shortly upon an entirely different country, covered with porcupine grass.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest
For some miles we had seen very little porcupine grass, but here we came into it again, to the manifest disgust of our horses.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest
Keeping near the river bank, we met but little porcupine grass for the most part of the day's stage, but there was abundance of it further off.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest
The more stony portions are, however, covered with porcupine grass, and here and there with mallee; large ant-hills are very numerous; they vary in height from two and a half to four feet.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by Wills, William John
No other living thing was seen hour after hour, save a solitary eagle high in the air, a few lizards darting about the clumps of porcupine grass, and ants and flies.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
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