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- noun Any of several, unrelated
grasses
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Examples
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'Till, presently, tired and a little out of sorts, I sat down on a hummock of speargrass and sand for a little before going home.
Movie Night 2010
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They include blue grama and buffalo grass, cacti, sagebrush, speargrass, and small relatives of the sunflower.
Grassland biome 2008
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On the grassy plains yellow speargrass Imperata cylindrica, Commiphora sp.,
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Mangere Island now supports a remnant patch of akeake forest and healthy tundra communities of shrub daisies, iceplant (Disphyma spp.), koromiko, and megaherbs such as giant sowthistle and soft speargrass.
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Cushion plants such as Chionohebe myosotioide, tall tussocks (Chionochloa spp.), and large herbs like the speargrass (Aciphylla subflabellata) are found at high altitude above the natural treeline.
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Yields of Panicum maximum and speargrass under a canopy of A. lebbeck in a subhumid area of northern Australia were significantly higher than yields between the trees, 1710 vs. 753 kg/ha, for trees sufficiently isolated for considerable lateral light penetration (Lowry et al. 1988).
Chapter 10 1996
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Yields of Panicum maximum and speargrass under a canopy of A. lebbeck in a subhumid area of northern Australia were significantly higher than yields between the trees, 1710 vs. 753 kg/ha, for trees sufficiently isolated for considerable lateral light penetration (Lowry et al. 1988).
Chapter 8 1996
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Some perennial tropical grasses such as Guinea (Panicum maximum) and speargrass
Chapter 10 1981
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I remember that there were kittiwakes crying and wheeling above us, and coloured butterflies flitting in and out of the speargrass of the sandhills, and a hot sun that made the water blue and sparkling, the sand white.
Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
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What memories of the soft summer mornings; the fresh and fragrant air; the diffused and misty sunshine; the sparkle of the dew on the tall wisps of speargrass; the beaded and shining cobwebs; the scamper, barefooted, across the glittering green!
Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915
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