kangaroo grass
noun1
Australia, Usually Any of various tussocky grasses of the genus Themeda, especially Themeda triandra.
- They walked through plains of silver tussock and kangaroo grass and pines 200 feet high, and discovered a pair of lakes that Laycock named “Kemp's Lakes” (now Lakes Sorell and Crescent).2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 51
- The kangaroo grass in the Colac region of Western Victoria was so high it concealed the flocks of the first settler, G.T. Lloyd.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 23: