buck spinifex
English
Noun
buck spinifex (uncountable)
- (Australia) Any of various plants with stiff blades, especially Triodia longiceps.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 47:
- On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 47: