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n. - Plant having wiry stems and sheathed panicles.

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  • There was rush-grass on that stream — this he remembered well — but no timber, and he would follow it till its first trickle ceased at a divide.
  • It lies among the sand-dunes on the eastern bank of the estuary, and is now protected from the sands that once practically buried it by the growth of rush-grass and...
  • There were oozy bottoms, rankly speared with rush-grass.
  • He was compelled to pause for frequent rests when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches
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