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 Ernest Giles
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 Jewett Castello Gilson
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 Ernest Giles
Passing first over rough stony ridges, covered with porcupine grass, we entered a sandy, thickly-bushed country, and struck the creek in ten miles.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles
Sweet vernal grass, tall oat grass, holy grass, redtop, animated or wild oats, blue-joint, and porcupine grass are among them.
From Seed Dispersal by W. J. (William James) Beal
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