spinifex

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an Australian coastal grass

And there will be Ethel watching, just standing there, stirring something on the kitchen stove, or dusting the mahogany sideboard, or polishing the silver, and looking out the window, staring, just staring, as though she were watching the spinifex growing, or the sky hanging there, just staring with that terrible effrontery of someone who will not deign to react.

Also, a plant of this genus
Any of several Australian grasses of the genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed
A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine
paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant
longifolius are useful as sand binders
hirsutus (black grass) and S
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