Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any one of certain grasses formerly classed as Vilfa, now included in Sporobolus.
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- noun grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles
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Examples
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Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass.
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He was compelled to pause for frequent rests, when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches.
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He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots.
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There was rush-grass on that stream — this he remembered well — but no timber, and he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide.
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He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.
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He was compelled to pause for frequent rests, when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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There was rush-grass on that stream -- this he remembered well -- but no timber, and he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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