button grass
Noun
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.
Usage- Australia
- Uncountable
- Examples
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[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.
Word forms
buttongrassbutton-grass