sword grass

noun

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

sword grass

First recorded in 1590–1600

At their side walked a body-guard of eight hoppers, armed with pistils, and having side-arms of sword-grass.

The inner part of the isle is covered with a sort of sword-grass, very green, and of a great length.

At the end of each foot-stalk is a leaf about the size of a great cabbage-leaf, snipt half round like a sword-grass.

On the oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool.

Browse