silvergrass
noun1
A grass, Miscanthus sinensis, that has silvery plumes
2
Australia Any of various annual or perennial grasses of the family Poaceae, including Aristida contorta (mulga grass) and the introduced European Vulpia bromoides.
- At the back, under a squeaky wind-pump, there was a dead Chevrolet with silver-grass growing up through it.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 79: