red grass, noun phrase

Origin:
Translation of Afrikaans rooigras.
rooigras.
1934 Friend 15 Mar. (Swart)Besides encouraging the growth of red-grass, the effects of any previous, differential grazing are neutralised by burning.
1948 E. Rosenthal Afr. Switzerland 128The natural grasses of the mountains have their own Basuto names. Commonest of all is the Seboku type, known in English as ‘red grass’, estimated to grow on more than half the countryside. The old Boers called it ‘Sweet veld’.
1952 B. Davidson Report on Sn Afr. 208The rich ‘red-grass’ of Basutoland was steadily worn down, and the containing soil eroded.
1955 J.H. Wellington Sn Afr.: Geog. Study 276Along the south coastal areas from Swellendam to Mossel Bay a century ago were large tracts of grassland occupied by the valuable red grass Themada triandra.
1963 Pollock & Agnew Hist. Geog. 18Themeda triandra or red grass is the climax over most of the plateau...In the sixteenth century..the High Veld consisted of waving grasslands of Themeda triandra, green in summer and coppery brown in winter.
1972 Daily Dispatch 11 Mar. 17This property is divided into seven camps. It is well grassed with sweet red grass.
1982 Grocott’s Mail 18 May 2One could only..wonder if posterity would ever be able to walk through waving red-grass or bushman grass.
1987 M. Poland Train to Doringbult 42As children they had run.., with the red grass bending to the wind, bush willows green by the spruit.
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