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

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

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

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.

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.

From Kit of Greenacre Farm by Forrester, Izola L. (Izola Louise)

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.