sugar grass

English

Alternative forms

• sugargrass, sugar-grass

Noun

sugar grass (plural sugar grasses)

1. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor).
2. (Australia) A perennial grass (Eulalia aurea), of mainland Australia and southeast Asia. [from 19th c.]
   • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 151:

     ‘I sat here rolling a smoke, my horse snatching at this sugargrass, and I looked back at them trees.’