sword grass
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sword grass
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
For two hours the sound truck howled Japanese into the silent bamboo and sword grass of southern Guam's jungle.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a wild place which seemed to have been cut out of the mountain side with two strokes of a mighty ax and was choked with a tangle of thorny vines and sword grass.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
After this comes weedy plantation, and stretches of sword grass hanging across the road.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
We skirt alongside a great young island of this class; the sword grass some ten or fifteen feet high.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
We were in camp only a mile away and our Chinese hunters found the carcass on a narrow ledge in the sword grass high up on the mountain side.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
