silvergrass

English

Alternative forms

• silver grass

Noun

silvergrass (plural silvergrasses)

1. A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes
2. (Australia) Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides.
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79:

     At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.