Noun: buffelgrass
| Singular | buffelgrass |
| Plural | buffelgrasses |
Sample Sentences
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Bo spotted a scrub turkey standing head high in the buffel grass. [2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 34:]
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Some other people had a different reaction and gambled by the light of kerosene lanterns on the spare allotment covered in buffel grass at the back of the pub […]. [2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 79:]
Nouns inflected like buffelgrass
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Via Afrikaans, ultimately from Dutch buffel (“buffalo”). See: Dutch Nouns '
buffel'.