esparto grass

noun

Esparto.

Meanings

nounesparto grass (countable and uncountable, plural esparto grasses)

plural esparto grasses

  1. countableuncountableEsparto.

    These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.

    2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97

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