button grass

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word button grass. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word button grass, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say button grass in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word button grass you have here. The definition of the word button grass will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofbutton grass, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Landscape with button grass in the foreground

Alternative forms

Etymology

From button +‎ grass.

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

button grass (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Australia) 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.
    • 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 75, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping‎, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, pages 377–378:
      [T]he ceiling swelled in waves like an ocean, like a buttongrass plain, like the pocked earth stripped of its trees […] .
    • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 73:
      Button-grass plains grew in peaty soil to the water's edge.
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia