sugar grass

noun

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor).

First used 19th c.

Meanings

nounsugar grass (plural sugar grasses)

plural sugar grasses · alternative sugargrass · alternative sugar-grass

  1. AustraliaA perennial grass (Eulalia aurea), of mainland Australia and southeast Asia.First known use 19th c.

    ‘I sat here rolling a smoke, my horse snatching at this sugargrass, and I looked back at them trees.’

    2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 151
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