porcupine grass

British  

noun

1. another name for spinifex

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Example Sentences

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

One species, the porcupine grass, bears a name that does not belie its character.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

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

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

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)