sword grass

American  

noun

1. any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.

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sword grass British  

noun

1. any of various grasses and other plants having sword-shaped sharp leaves

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Etymology

Origin of sword grass

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

He had slain his prey—the pretty creature lay near the jungle lake, the sword grass and the poisonous marsh flowers flaunting their lush growth all about.

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Instead of hills thickly clothed with sword grass, here the slopes were bare and brown.

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Tall sword grass waved almost like Cousin Roxy's striped ribbon grass in the home garden, and wild sunflowers showed like golden glow here and there.

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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.

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The river channel dodges round against a big bank of sword grass, and then widens out to the breadth of the Thames at Putney. 

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