Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

button grass

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: but-ton -grass
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several grasses with round or globular flower heads; especially Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, a tussock-forming sedge especially of western Tasmania, forming distinct plains; and Dactyloctenium radulans, an annual grass of mainland Australia.

Australian usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[T]he ceiling swelled in waves like an ocean, like a buttongrass plain, like the pocked earth stripped of its trees […]."
"Button-grass plains grew in peaty soil to the water's edge."

Etymology

From button + grass.

Usage

Inflected Forms

buttongrass (alternative) button-grass (alternative)

Questions

What does button grass mean?: Any of several grasses with round or globular flower heads; especially Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, a tussock-forming sedge especially of western Tasmania, forming distinct plains; and Dactyloctenium radulans, an annual grass of mainland Australia.
Where does button grass come from?: From button + grass.

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