wire-grass

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

and Wiry-grass


See grass.

1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in Victoria'(1841-1851), p. 81:

«Sparsely-scattered tussocks of the primest descriptions;the wire-grass, however, largely predominating over thekangaroo-grass.»

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