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kangaroo grass

noun

  1. a tall widespread Australian grass, Themeda australis, which is highly palatable to cattle and is used for fodder


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Amongst the ranges we found kangaroo grass as high as our shoulders, and on the plains the spear grass up to our knees.

The well-known kangaroo grass (Anthisteria) forms still one of the principal components of the pasture.

There were four kinds but the cattle appeared to relish most a strong species of anthisteria, or kangaroo grass.

The plains were covered with anthistirium, or kangaroo grass, which bent under the breeze like a field of oats.

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