snow grass

British  

noun

1. any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions

2. any of various hill and high-country grasses of the genus Danthonia

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Example Sentences

He thought the new cane tip would be helpful when stepping off concrete and into snow, grass or gravel.

From Washington Times

Through cold and warm weather, rain and snow, grass and artificial turf, he said, many of the athletes he encounters do not care much about the condition of the material underfoot.

From New York Times

Many small legged animals—not to mention robots—have difficulty moving on natural substrates such as sand, gravel, rubble, soil, mud, snow, grass and leaf litter, which, unlike solid ground, yield under pressure.

From Scientific American

Such a painting often has a bright-red tiled roof—every tile visible and in its proper place; a violently blue sky decorated here and there with solid masses of apparently unmeltable snow; grass an acute green; trees emphatic as to outline, every branch clearly defined in its appointed place; sheep standing out like pure-white snowflakes on the acute grass; the smoke from the cottage chimney a thick grey mass suggesting a heavy bale of wool; each brick, each window frame, each paling emphasised with careful exactness.

From Project Gutenberg

This movement took about an hour, but we succeeded under cover of snow grass and cabbage trees in approaching within half a mile of the herd, with the hills behind us, before they took the alarm.

From Project Gutenberg