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buffel grass

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buffel grass [ˈbʌfəl]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Austral a pasture grass, Cenchrus ciliaris, native to Africa and India, introduced in N Australia
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Noun1.buffel grass - erect tussock-forming perennial bur grass used particularly in South Africa and Australia for pasture and forage
bur grass, burgrass - a grass of the genus Cenchrus


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Despite this, NT Government departments and industry are still promoting 'pasture improvement' techniques that involve the use of a range of known environmental weeds for cattle pasture including such serious weed species as buffel grass, para grass and leucaena.
What the Aguirres inherited was a ranch devoid of most vegetation except buffel grass, an exotic species from Africa.
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