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button grass

noun

Etymology

From button + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. compounded as button grass — “button + grass”

Definitions

  1. Any of several grasses with round or globular flower heads

    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.

    • [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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA