esparto grass

English

Noun

esparto grass (countable and uncountable, plural esparto grasses)

1. esparto
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

     These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.