kangaroo-grass

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noun Any one of several species of Australian grasses belonging to the genus Themeda, especially T. triandra, a tall perennial grass, valued for fodder.
noun The Australasian grass Anthistiria ciliata (A. Australis), also diffused through southern Asia and the whole of Africa.

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The back country was sandy, having kangaroo-grass upon it and wooded with broad-leaved box, broad-leaved ironbark, bloodwood, and mulga.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
At 12.58 came one and three-quarter miles over sandy level land on which I observed, amongst other grasses, tufts of kangaroo-grass.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
At 4.10 one mile and a quarter to where we made our Number 11 camp, at which place I observed some first-rate grasses, and for the first time on the Gregory River a few tufts of kangaroo-grass.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
In May the kangaroo-grass would be high and waving, full of seed, a wealth of luxuriant herbage, the value of which Flinders,

Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903
Dry watercourses these, except immediately after rain; in their beds are found native wells five to ten feet in depth, sometimes holding water; on their banks, round the foot of the cliffs, and on the flat where the creeks merge into the sand, grows long grass -- kangaroo-grass -- and, in the winter magnificent herbage.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885