Meaning of button grass | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of several grasses with round or globular flower heads; especially Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, a tussock-forming sedge especially of western Tasmania, forming distinct plains; and Dactyloctenium radulans, an annual grass of mainland Australia.

Australia, uncountable

Examples

“[T]he ceiling swelled in waves like an ocean, like a buttongrass plain, like the pocked earth stripped of its trees […].”

“Button-grass plains grew in peaty soil to the water's edge.”

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