snow grass
Britishnoun
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any of various grey-green grasses of the genus Poa, of SE Australian mountain regions
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any of various hill and high-country grasses of the genus Danthonia
Example Sentences
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He thought the new cane tip would be helpful when stepping off concrete and into snow, grass or gravel.
From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2016
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 • Feb. 24, 2014
The station, or homestead, stood on a plateau some fifty feet above the plain; it consisted of two huts, mud-walled and thatched with snow grass.
From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Booth, Robert B.
We washed and bound his wound as well as we could and tied him to a bush of snow grass to await the dray.
From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Booth, Robert B.
Had it not been for that, I could not have survived, and it was a piece of extraordinary luck my lighting on a patch of snow grass and scrub in that wild and desolate pass.
From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Booth, Robert B.
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