sword grass

American

noun

any of various grasses or plants having swordlike or sharp leaves, as the sword lily.

sword grass British

noun

any of various grasses and other plants having sword-shaped sharp leaves

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Etymology

Origin of sword grass

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

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Instead of hills thickly clothed with sword grass, here the slopes were bare and brown.

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Tall sword grass waved almost like Cousin Roxy's striped ribbon grass in the home garden, and wild sunflowers showed like golden glow here and there.

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The narrow mountain trail abruptly left us on a jutting promontory and wandered uncertainly down a steep ravine to lose itself in a veritable forest of tree ferns and sword grass.

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The river channel dodges round against a big bank of sword grass, and then widens out to the breadth of the Thames at Putney.

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When we were half way up the dogs disappeared in a small ravine overgrown with bamboo and sword grass and suddenly broke into a chorus of yelps.

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