porcupine grass

British  

noun

1. another name for spinifex

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porcupine grass

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 William John Wills

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

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

As they frequent the dense porcupine grass, in which they hide during the day, a good dog is necessary to find them.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

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

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