buffelgrass
English
Alternative forms
- buffel grass
Etymology
Via Afrikaans, ultimately from Dutch buffel (“buffalo”).
Noun
buffelgrass (usually uncountable, plural buffelgrasses)
- The African perennial grass Cenchrus ciliaris.
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 34:
- Bo spotted a scrub turkey standing head high in the buffel grass.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 79:
- Some other people had a different reaction and gambled by the light of kerosene lanterns on the spare allotment covered in buffel grass at the back of the pub […].
- 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin 2003, p. 34: