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The term Elephant grass may refer to the following grass species:
- The African Pennisetum purpureum, also known as Napier grass, Uganda grass or giant king grass
- The Eurasian Saccharum ravennae, also known as ravennagrass or ekra
- The East Asian Miscanthus sinensis, also known as Chinese silver grass, eulalia grass, maiden grass, porcupine grass or zebra grass
Usage examples of "elephant grass".
The wide-brimmed terai hat that Flynn had loaned him came down to his ears, and the razor edges of the elephant grass had shredded his trouser legs and stripped the polish from his boots.
I think you are right, he agreed, the valley ahead of him was forbidding, the floor choked with tall stands of the razor-edged elephant grass, higher than a man's head.
Carefully he surveyed the narrow open strip of head-high elephant grass.
Tall elephant grass and niongongo trees grew profusely among the black volcanic boulders.
Tungata swerved into it and the ugly blunt-nosed vehicle flew up it, all four wheels clawing as it went over the top and tore likea combine-harvester into the high yellow stand of elephant grass beyond.
Here and there in the crowd I could see people beginning to brandish edged weapons: short swords, axes, and the long-bladed spears Joshua and I had seen over the elephant grass.
Now we were out where there were no more huts and the tall elephant grass started to get tangled up with the edge of the jungle.
Kya slipped through the elephant grass unobtrusively, testing the air with ear and nose, and moving towards a long glade in the grass that would give her a view of their ford.
We shoot without aiming into a field of elephant grass and up at some low, rounded hills nearby.
She gestured at the elephant grass and saal trees backing the meadow.